Yeah, sadly this feels broken at the moment....at least the way I want it to function.
Example: Goal - Subgoal - Metric and updating the Metric will update the Subgoal but not the Goal.
So if my Goal is not connected to a Metric there is no progress visible ( just 0 percent ) and no way to set the Progress...unless directly linking to a metric and that's not the usecase I have.
I would like to see the All goals will have a progress roll up by default. work and overwrite Sub-goals will no longer contribute to the progress. so that they by default get the roll up.
This is a good and very welcomed improvement. Something I'm missing is that is that it missing the connection of cascading and laddering where a top level KR can be a teams Objective. Like explained in measure what matters. that https://www.whatmatters.com/okrs-explained/top-down-okrs-cascading Will there be a way to handle this? progress rolling up from sub-goal objectives would be a very nice way to capture the total image of how the objective is doing. Then the objective could have a mix of KRs that has direct success measures and as well have child objectives that is that objectives KR.
Still experimenting with this. Just crossposting something I discovered when combining Confluence Databases with Goals. It allows a more smooth interaction for updating Goals. (And contains a feature request :))
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January 5, 2026 edited
Hi, Nicola here from the Atlassian team. Thanks for trying out Goal types and Success measures, and for all the feedback you’ve shared so far.
A few of you have asked for the ability to roll up progress from sub-goals, not just Success measures. I’d love to speak with customers who need this so we can better understand your setup and reporting needs. You can book a short call with me here.
If the times don’t work, it’d still be great to hear from you. In particular:
How you structure goals today (e.g. Objective → sub-goals → Success measures)
When you’d expect progress to roll up from sub-goals vs Success measures
How you’d expect roll-up to work when you have both sub-goals and Success measures in your hierarchy (e.g. weighted averages)
Thanks again for helping us shape where Goal types and Success measures go next!
I would love to try this out, however, I am not seeing the success measures feature yet, Is it a configuration issue or the feature is not available to all users yet?
I would also like to know if the ability to have different permission levels for goals and success measures is already available. In our case it is critical to be able to determine who has access to specific goals.
This is great -- we're already adopting success measures and metrics. However, I don't understand how I can view all of the target values for all of my success measures in 1 view -- is this possible? It looks like i have to hover here to see the target values. LMK if I'm missing something -- or is there a workaround to see/pull all targets in 1 place?
@Nicola Sunon top of my previous comment, I wanted to share some additional needs we're encountering as we scale our use of Goals and Success Measures.
Goal Types & Filtering
We have a strong need to be able to change the Goal Types on existing goals and the ability to filter by Goal Type in the Goal Directory and plans. We currently have things marked as OKRs that are not actually OKRs since it was the only goal type available at the time (same with generic Goals from before). This will continue to be a need as our goal structure evolves.
Goal Directory Improvements
The Goal Directory would benefit from expand all/collapse all and column ordering functions (on top of being able to pull in the Goal Type column for filtering).
Metrics & Success Measures
We're running into two significant challenges with how metrics work:
First, most goals track progress from 0-100%. Having this as a built-in default metric would save time and reduce clutter in the metrics list, rather than creating a new custom metric for each goal.
Second, we're concerned about metric cleanup and long-term management. Currently, every goal instance creates a new metric entry, even when measuring the same thing (e.g., "% complete" or "revenue"). This makes the metrics list grow unmanageably fast. We need either:
A way to reuse metric definitions without sharing actual values between unrelated goals, OR
Better tools to archive/manage old metrics/goals/projects so the list stays usable
Additionally, it would be helpful to have more control over target types - whether you want to reach a target, stay above some metric, stay below some metric, or stay between values. And parent goal status many times needs to automatically update when success measures or sub-goals change (along with progress and other automations).
Are there best practices documentation available around managing metrics long-term?
Additional High-Priority Needs
There are several other features we're waiting on that would significantly help adoption:
Goal privacy & management controls:
Ability to make goals private and remove followers/contributors as owners/admins at any time
Community Comment on Goal Privacy- even allowing private goal creation (like you can with projects) would be a helpful stepping stone
Reporting & notifications:
Reporting/dashboards that measure update dates alongside target dates to monitor who needs to write updates on official goals and how often they are keeping people in the loop
Customizable notification timing and update periods for both Goals and Projects - Update Cadence - ATLAS-38 - people want to set different dates for reminders and digests
Thanks for continuing to engage with the community on these improvements!
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