Track progress on roadmaps

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You can visualize the progress of objectives, initiatives, features, subfeatures, and releases to help you monitor the overall momentum of a project and keep your stakeholders up to date. 

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Relevant to both new and legacy boards

Progress tracking modes

There are three ways to track progress for a given item:

  • Manual: You can manually update the progress for all supported item types, giving you full control over how the progress is reflected on each item.
  • Status-based: Progress can be tied to the status of features and subfeatures. You can customize the amount of progress each status contributes (see below).
  • Calculated: Progress can be calculated automatically based on the progress of sub-items. For example, a feature's progress can be rolled up from the progress of its subfeatures. This works on all supported items except subfeatures (because subfeatures can't have sub-items).

Progress tracking modes are set on an item-by-item basis, meaning you could have one objective use manual progress tracking and another use calculated tracking. 

To change an item's progress tracking mode:

  1. Click on the item to open its detail sidebar.
  2. Scroll down to the Work Progress and Health section.
  3. Hover over the progress bar to reveal the edit button. Click this button. 
  4. Select a progress tracking mode from the dropdown. 

Visualizing progress on roadmaps

Progress visualization can be enabled from the Configure menu of any roadmap. Each item's progress will be displayed as a blue bar on its card.

See Customize your roadmaps with card attributes for experience-specific instructions. 

Customizing status-based progress percentages

You can define the specific amount of progress each status should contribute toward a feature or subfeature's total progress. This customization can help you tailor your progress tracking to better fit your team's workflow.

To customize status-based progress percentages:

  1. Open your workspace settings menu by clicking the workspace menu in the top left corner and selecting Settings.
  2. Find the Status customization section. 
  3. Use the Progress column to define the progress percentage for each status. 
Note: The status customization section may look different depending on whether you have access to the New Productboard experience, the Legacy experience, or both (pictured below).

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