Objectives report

Use the Objectives report to see and track all the Team PI Objectives in an Increment.

Tracking objective progress

The progress of an objective is calculated based on the Jira issues linked to it.

• If the linked issue is an epic/feature on your roadmap and it has child issues, the progress will be calculated using the progress of the child issues.

Linked issues are configured when creating or editing an Objective:

You can also filter by objective on the Team planning page to see the linked issues to track progress:

Status tracking

Use the Tracking status dropdown on each objective row to record how that objective is progressing. Select from seven statuses: Off track at risk on track pending Paused Completed cancelled

If no status has been set, the row shows a "Choose status" dropdown. Statuses are saved automatically and will persist the next time you open the report.

The report can be filtered by the statuses to focus in on the objectives that need the most attention.

Business value

The Objectives report shows the planned and actual business value for each objective.

For each objective:

• Plan - business value assigned during PI Planning

• Actual - business value assigned after the system demo, based on what was delivered

The business value section appears when at least one objective in the report has a planned or actual value entered. If your team doesn't use business value scoring, the section won't appear.

If you expect to see business value but the section isn't showing, check that at least one objective has a value entered in the Plan or Actual field - this can be done on the Team Planning screen (these values are read-only on the report). See PI Objectives for more details on how to add or update business value.

An objective with no value shows a dash (-).

An objective explicitly scored at 0 shows as 0.

Creating and managing Objectives

To create, edit, or delete an Objective, you’ll need to switch to the relevant Team planning page.

Click the team board name to jump directly to the right page, with the PI Objectives panel already open.

Learn more about managing PI Objectives here.

Configuring the Objectives report

Select a Program and Increment to see the Objectives for that Increment:

If you were already viewing a Program/Increment, these will automatically be selected when you open the Report.

Filtering

The Objectives report can be filtered by team, commitment type, and status.

Team filtering

Select a set of teams to view only the Objectives from those teams.

This will be reflected in the page URL, so you can share a link directly to this set of teams and their objectives.

Commitment type

Filter by commitment type to hide uncommitted objectives.

Status

Filter by one or more statuses to focus on the objectives that need the most attention.

Status tracking is currently available in Cloud only. Please reach out if you’d like this functionality on Data Center.

Troubleshooting the Objectives report

Check that you can view the team and its Objectives on the Team planning page.

If you do not have access to view a team’s board in Easy Agile Programs or in Jira, Objectives from that team will be missing from the report.

“Add your first team objective!”

This message will show if there are no Objectives in this Increment yet for any of the selected team boards.

There may be Objectives for other team boards, if you have filtered out some teams.

Export the report

Use the the “export”/“download” button to generate a downloadable PNG of the report, using the currently-selected Program, Increment and Teams. The PNG export reflects the full live report - including the Business value section if it's shown on screen.

This can be added to other documents or reports for stakeholders who can’t access the live report personally.

[Data Center only] Reporting on Objectives with JQL

If you’re using the app on Jira Data Center, you can also search for issues linked to Objectives with the hidden issue.property[EAP-team-objectives]. See Tracking issues linked to Objectives for details.