The problem
OKR reviews are supposed to tell you whether you're on track, what needs to change, and who owns the course corrections. They often produce none of that. Someone updates a spreadsheet, someone else gives a verbal status in a meeting, and the conversation drifts into tactics without anchoring to outcomes.
The whiteboard version of an OKR review is more honest. You write the objective, you write the key result target, you write where you actually are right now, and the whole team looks at the gap simultaneously. There's nowhere to hide. Confidence scores written in circles (1-10 or Red/Yellow/Green) make the conversation concrete fast.
But just like planning sessions, the review board gets erased. The status report that gets sent to leadership is often softer than what was written on the board in the room.