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How can I make subgoal progress affect parent goal progress?

Learn how subgoal progress can automatically update parent goal progress in Teamflect.

Written by Myka
Updated over 2 months ago

In Teamflect, you can automatically update a parent goal’s progress based on the progress of its subgoals. This feature helps ensure that higher-level goals accurately reflect real progress without manual updates, making it easier to track alignment across individuals, teams, and departments.

Here are the different options:

  • Reach

  • Stay above

  • Stay below

  • Completed / Not completed

  • Roll-up from subgoal progress

  • Roll-up from task progress

When you choose "subgoal progress" as the way to measure the progress of the goal, you will not be able to specify a start and end value as the progress will be determined by the subgoals' progress.

When you add more than one key result to a goal, you can change the weights of these subgoals and determine their relative impact on the goal's overall progress.

Benefical Use Cases

  1. Automated Progress Updates
    Progress made on subgoals rolls up automatically to update the parent goal, eliminating manual tracking and ensuring real-time accuracy.

  2. Weighted Impact Calculation
    Assign different weights to subgoals so that more critical subgoals influence the parent goal progress more, reflecting true priorities.

  3. Simplified Performance Tracking
    Enables detailed subgoal tracking while providing an automatic, consolidated view of overall parent goal progress for easier reporting.

Best Practice

Use this feature when:

  • A high-level goal depends on multiple measurable subgoals

  • You want progress to update automatically and consistently

  • Alignment across teams or departments is critical

Avoid using this feature when:

  • The parent goal requires manual judgment rather than measurable progress

  • Key results are not equally important to the parent goal

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