Reports

Status reports provide you with lots of crucial information about your project and its particulars. 

- Objective status

Here you can see the general information regarding your overarching Objective, such as its deadlines, related Key Results, and tasks.

- Key Results

This report will show you all Key Results associated with the selected Objective, the number of tasks that they include, and their progress of date.

- Overdue tasks

This section can be vital for the success of your project. It shows all of your team’s overdue tasks, so you can spot any development lags and other potential issues.

- Key Result KPIs

Here you can see all the Key Performance Indicators assigned to your teams detailed per Key Results. This way you’ll always know the true state of your development, regardless of how complex and ramified it is.

KeepSolid Goals facilitates the use of Agile methodology in business. Among other things, Agile development allows organizations to quickly adapt to change and keep their products relevant despite the ever-shifting market and business environment. But for this, managers and teams need to stay up-to-date with the status of their project and the current developments.

This is where the Reports feature of our app comes into play. KeepSolid Goals compiles all the necessary info about your project, such as the status of your Objective, Key Results, tasks, KPIs, etc. After that, Goals app presents this data via automatic reports as burnup charts, throughput diagrams, cumulative flow diagram, etc. You can also opt to receive the most vital reports by email.

1. Log in to KeepSolid Goals

2. Create a new Objective or click on an existing one

3. If it’s a new Objective, add Key Results, invite team members, and assign them some Tasks

4. Click the Reports tab

5. See all the important information about your project on a single page

• Retrospective objective summary
• Burnup chart
• Throughput histogram
• KeepSolid efficiency report
• Cumulative flow diagram

It’s an important moment to sweep eyes over the project as a whole, gather feedback on what worked well, what did not, and why. Retrospective meetings also allow the team to figure out what actions and goals to focus on next. As such, the Retrospective Objective Summary report found in KeepSolid Goals is a vital retrospective tool for any manager. It provides you with all the information necessary for a successful retrospective meeting.

It also helps warrant that your retrospective meeting is:

• Transparent
• Objective-oriented
• Open for discussion
• Actionable
• Constructive and not condemning

Burnup charts show total and completed work on the vertical axis, while the horizontal axis displays dates. They also make scope changes immediately evident, facilitating the Agile approach to management. Whenever a manager adds new tasks, the total work line (otherwise flat and steady) will reflect the increase in total work and scope as a spike.  

In essence, a burnup chart shows the progress of a project over time. In KeepSolid Goals, there are three main lines shown on the chart: 

• Scope - total project work planned
• Completed - work completed to date
• Ideal - how much work should you be burning ideally

In turn, the throughput histogram is a chart that aggregates this data and shows the throughput distribution on the selected workflow. Long story short, the throughput histogram visualizes how productive your team is. It helps managers evaluate the performance of their teams with a single glance. It shows how consistently the team is delivering results. 

On a throughput histogram, you will find:

• The number of tasks that were finished each day on the horizontal axis
• The defined time frame (dates) on the vertical axis
• The curved line that shows how many days had a certain throughput

KeepSolid Efficiency Report breaks down into two sections:

• Total Objective Score - it includes all sorts of information about your team’s performance on their Objective. In this section, you will see the number of planned and completed tasks and Key Results, deadlines, planned and spent budget, KPI performance, etc. And on top of that, you will find the general score that KeepSolid Goals gives to your Objective performance.
• Objective Plan Quality - this section evaluates how well-thought-out your action plan is. It tracks a few key metrics related to Key Results and Tasks of your Objective so that you can see that youк plan is complete and not missing any important parts.

The main purpose of the cumulative flow diagram is to help managers and teams understand what activities they need to focus on to make the process more predictable and to determine how stable your workflow is.

What information does a cumulative flow diagram provide? The cumulative flow diagram offers a concise visualization of the most important metrics of a workflow - status of tasks. How many of them there are to do, which are currently in progress, which tasks are pending for review, and the amount of work completed. All these give you qualitative and quantitative insight into the state of your projects, visualizing massive amounts of data.