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title: "Achievement of objectives."
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## Introduction

The **Achievement **feature will help you track the progress of your goals and objectives as well as calculate the planned vs actual business value metric.

The Achievement metric is calculated for each timebox based on one of the following:

- Objective Status
- Objective Business Value

<span style="color: #333333">The Business value should not be confused with any other measures, such as the associated effort or total story points associated with an objective. The fields values range is from 0 to 10.</span>

The Planned Business Value<span style="color: #333333"> (PBV) of new objectives scored during the planning meeting can be later compared with the </span>Actual Business Value<span style="color: #333333"> (ABV), once data is available. This is usually done during the 'Inspect and adopt' ceremonies.</span>

![image](media://5f4dc6c4-8a8b-4cfd-98a6-20962304626d)

## <span style="color: #333333">Configuration</span>

<span style="color: #333333">App admins can enable the PBV vs ABV ratio calculation in </span><span style="color: #333333">**App Administration**</span><span style="color: #333333"> > </span><span style="color: #333333">**Box types **</span> > <span style="color: #333333">**select the Box type to edit **</span> > <span style="color: #333333">**Objectives**</span> > <span style="color: #333333">**Business Value**</span><span style="color: #333333">.</span>

![image](media://920132da-75fb-4ec9-903b-73ddb9be952b)

## Achievement progress

### Achievement: None

![image](media://546e0dbd-cf21-40b0-912e-583dbc2779bf)

Achievement progress is not calculated. 

![image-20240925-114918.png](media://67879b4f-c1c9-46c6-ab26-f9b8337dc2bf)

### Achievement: Count by status

![image](media://489a6337-c03b-4700-9d05-d5be6ba00b0f)

The calculation is executed per swimlane and per Box to which objectives have been assigned:

![image-20240925-114840.png](media://ae750420-fc90-4d18-8879-0e69fe5a365f)

**The calculation is based on** **how many of the objectives have been achieved**. <u>The progress state of individual "Open" objectives isn't taken into account</u> - the objective either has been achieved, or it hasn't. 

#### The Formula

> ℹ️ <u>**Formula:**</u>
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ Achievement progress = Number of regular Completed Objectives / Total number of regular objectives (Open + Failed + Completed)

![image](media://b8f862f3-e8e5-4948-a327-afc2ba359647)

**Abandoned** objectives are ignored in the calculation:

![image-20240925-114756.png](media://7d0fc73e-2a36-4e19-b317-5d3cc5136847)

**Uncommitted** objectives are ignored in the calculation:

![image](media://e5ed2836-634a-47dd-a242-313267d7b311)

#### Swimlanes filter impacts the calculation

Only visible swimlanes are taken into account during the calculation. 

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<summary>Expand to see the screenshots</summary>

![image-20240925-114502.png](media://bf7ce599-f885-4cbd-ab2d-fd0dd666229b)

![image-20240925-114538.png](media://07f40952-df06-4ab2-95f1-36be51de674a)

![image-20240925-114607.png](media://c033a498-9665-4fe6-86f6-53837a971deb)

Collapsed swimlanes are still taken into account during the calculation as long as they are visible:

![image-20240925-114653.png](media://5bf3af13-e30f-4a0c-8ea5-dba0449576a6)
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### Achievement: Count by Business Value

![image](media://05366be8-3c17-44b0-a921-58918ee2fb3e)

You can compare the  Planned and Actual business values, in which case the Uncommitted Team Objectives will not be included in the Achievement calculation. The App can calculate the ratio which will be displayed in the Timebox header thus creating a Team Performance report. 

The results can be further rolled up and used to create a program predictability measure. To learn more, see the [Inspect and Adapt](https://scaledagileframework.com/inspect-and-adapt/) article. 

#### Edit business value

<span style="color: #333333">Keep in mind that the status of the Box determines the possibility to set the Business Value:</span>

| **Timebox status** | **Actual BV** | **Planned BV** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Not started | not editable | editable |
| In progress | editable | editable |
| Closed | not editable | not editable |

The [business value](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DLP/pages/297768451) must be enabled for a Box type. Otherwise, PBV and ABV fields will be hidden. 

PBV - Planned Business Value

ABV - Achieved business Value

#### Calculating the Planned vs Actual Business Value 

The PBVs of uncommitted objectives are not included in the calculation. For example, the total ABV is 27 points and the sum of PBV for the regular objectives is 18. The ratio is 27/18*100=150%

![image](media://d08cfd30-47de-472a-be08-a26a8e164b77)

#### The Formula

> ℹ️ <u>**Formula**</u>**:**
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ **Total ABV / Total PBV * 100 **
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ All Completed, Open, Failed, and Abandoned objectives are accounted for in the calculation.
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ The calculation is executed separately for each swimlane and for the entire Box:
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ - total ABV of all Box Objectives / total PBV of all Box Objectives
> ℹ️ - total ABV of swimlane Objectives in a Box / total PBV of swimlane Objectives in a Box
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ 5/5*100 = 100%
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ ![image](media://d27ee885-6916-4c34-bbe0-1ca872965296)
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ 5/10*100 = 50%
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ ![image](media://91f8b217-0d36-4447-8521-8334b95f57f1)
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ 18/15*100 = 120%
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ ![image](media://233eba14-4d8a-4239-9aea-a94fb8300d51)
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ 5/4*100 =125%
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ ![image](media://eb443df8-6c62-41e7-a166-167e4bc728f9)

**PBV of uncommitted objectives is taken into account (as an extra factor), **<u>**the ABV is counted**</u>**:** 

16/12*100 = 133%

![image](media://acddbc8b-9a65-47e9-8b1c-1fe74d406259)

**If the PBV total of a swimlane is 0, the swimlane's achievement calculation is 0%: **

![image](media://89138df2-8a03-4dfc-890e-48f226f9ae37)

But the box calculation is still executed if normally (total ABV of all box objectives / total PBV of all box objectives)  

27/10*100 = 270%

![image](media://1f0f5884-7e55-404e-99e2-f389508ebe57)

**If the box PBV is 0, the total for the Box and all swimlanes is 0%, regardless of ABV values:**

![image-20240925-115317.png](media://9604f5e5-87e4-4fa5-a556-aa6ddfb37e5a)

#### Swimlanes filter impacts the calculation

Only visible swimlanes are taken into account during the calculation. 

![image](media://94eaf3ad-704a-48dc-8473-c8f90a52c4aa)

Collapsed swimlanes are still taken into account during the calculation as long as they are visible:

![image-20240925-115420.png](media://bd5b4dc5-555f-49ea-ab01-7dda39f13e14)

Hidden swimlanes are ignored in the calculation:

![image-20240925-115455.png](media://576ff183-0903-43af-b19c-ceb2c9839e9c)