A more powerful way to update and view your Goals

[#1]

Hi Community,

We’re introducing bundled updates in the Goals app - a new way to update and view goals and success measures together in one view.

We’ve also redesigned the right-hand sidebar to make key goal details easier to scan.

What’s new

• Writing goal updates: When you write a goal update, your linked success measures now appear directly in the composer - no more manual copying and pasting to tell the full story.

• Reading goal updates: Goal updates now show the latest success measure updates alongside them. See the full picture at a glance and drill into details without switching views.

• Better visualisations for success measure updates: Progress charts now appear directly in goal updates, making it easier to track and share how your metrics are trending over time.

• A clearer way to view goal details: Goal information like owner, followers, sub-goals, and tags is now displayed in a structured side-by-side layout, making it faster to scan and understand the full context of a goal at a glance.

What do I need to do?

No action is required. This update will be rolled out automatically to your site. Once it’s available, you’ll see your success measures appear when you write or read a goal update.

We’re targeting the start of Q2 2026 (April–May) for this rollout and will provide a more precise date closer to launch. We’re sharing this early to give you more time to plan and notify any of your teams that might be interested.

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Update from the Goals team - 30th of April 

Hi Community,

We wanted to follow up on the bundled updates feature we announced in March.

We've had to revise our rollout timeline, and this feature will no longer be available at the start of Q2 2026. We are now targeting later this year and we'll share a more precise date as we get closer.

We appreciate your patience - we want to make sure we get this right and deliver an experience that genuinely improves the way you update and track your goals. The full feature set remains on our roadmap, including:

•  Bundled updates: Success measures alongside goal updates in one view
•  Better visualisations: Progress charts directly in goal updates
•  Redesigned sidebar: A cleaner way to scan goal details

We'll continue to keep you updated here as we get closer to launch. In the meantime, please drop any questions or feedback in the comments below, we'd love to hear from you.

We'll also be announcing more details about upcoming features like Activity History and Edit permissions - stay tuned! 

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FAQs

Can I still update success measures individually?

Yes. You can still update success measures independently, and those updates will also be reflected in the main goal update for improved context.

Will this change my existing goal updates?

No. This new experience will only apply to newly posted updates.

We want your feedback!

Once you’ve had a chance to try the new experience, we’d love to hear what you think. As always, please share your feedback and questions in the comments so we can continue improving Goals with you.

[A]

Next up: bundling with project updates too?

[Jan]

Great update. Is it also an option to stop the current limit of 20 success measures? For some use cases 20 is a blocking limit.

[Charlie Marriott]

@Jan thanks for the feedback! Are you able to elaborate on the limit you're finding with the number of success measures? Are you trying to associate >20 success measures with a goal? From speaking with the team, we verified that the limit is beyond 20, so this shouldn't be an issue. Let us know how you go!

Thanks

Charlie

[Jan]

Hi @Charlie Marriott ,

I was referencing this article https://support.atlassian.com/platform-experiences/docs/what-are-success-measures-and-key-results/

"Aim for one to three success measures per goal. Too many can make it hard to focus and report. Note that goals have a maximum of 20 success measures."

But if there is no limit - even better.

Thanks for your feedback.

best

Jan

[Birgit P]

@Charlie Marriott 

Yes, it would also be great for us to get rid of the 20s limits.

Here's why: We structure Goals (or prefer to) by division and year.  There are multiple subteams working on different subgoals. We use metrics to represent those.
We basically use the thing to give us a nice overview of hierarchy of goals.
20 is not YET a limiting factor, but we're cutting it close for some.

[Charlie Marriott]

Hi @Jan & @Birgit P, thanks for the additional details!

We'll be updating the support document to specify a limit of 50 success measures (including archived success measures).

I hope that helps,

Charlie

[Jan]

Hi @Charlie Marriott ,

thanks again for the update. One more nice thing to have would be a notification or alert if you reach the limit of 50 success measures. At the moment Goals just stops adding more success measures if the limit of 50 is reached.

Best

Jan

[Stephen_Lugton]

It would also be great to allow progress from sub-goals to be included in the progress of a goal and not just success measures, especially since the success measures may be part of the sub-goal

[Jonathan Laba]

Looking forward to this update. 

Curious if there is any plan to allow manual setting of Metric increments. 

Sometimes I'm late to update the metric and I want to set a historic improvement with a note.   

[Stephen_Lugton]

@Charlie Marriott seconding the request to be able to add in or update historic metrics, we've got one metric where someone in a hurry entered a wildly inaccurate value on a success measure which has been picked up in an audit, and we now have an audit action to correct that reporting value.

[Nicola Sun]

Update from the Goals team - 30th of April 

Hi Community,

We wanted to follow up on the bundled updates feature we announced in March.

We've had to revise our rollout timeline, and this feature will no longer be available at the start of Q2 2026. We are now targeting later this year and we'll share a more precise date as we get closer.

We appreciate your patience - we want to make sure we get this right and deliver an experience that genuinely improves the way you update and track your goals. The full feature set remains on our roadmap, including:

•  Bundled updates: Success measures alongside goal updates in one view
•  Better visualisations: Progress charts directly in goal updates
•  Redesigned sidebar: A cleaner way to scan goal details

We'll continue to keep you updated here as we get closer to launch. In the meantime, please drop any questions or feedback in the comments below, we'd love to hear from you.

We'll also be announcing more details about upcoming features like Activity History and Edit permissions - stay tuned! 

[Nicola Sun]

Hi @Stephen_Lugton @Jonathan Laba 

Thanks for your feedback, I have logged your use cases around adding in past metric values in our backlog for prioritisation. 

We are actively working on allowing progress from sub-goals to be rolled up, will share more once it's ready.