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My KR progress remains unchanged when a child Objective has progress
My KR progress remains unchanged when a child Objective has progress

Aligning an Objective under a Key Result does not contribute to the KR progress calculation

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Written by Neli Ivanova
Updated over a week ago

Problem

I have aligned a Child objective to a KR but the KR does not get updated when the objective marks some progress.

Cause

Aligning an Objective under a Key Result is perfectly fine. But that only serves the purpose of visualizing some logical connection between these two. Key results cannot be updated by child Objectives. You are still expected to update the KR manually in such a setup.

For more information on the topic, refer to the Objective bidirectional goal setting, alignment, and progress calculations article.

Solution

Child Objectives cannot update Key Results. So you either need to use an Objective as the parent or use cascaded Key Results.

Use an Objective as the parent

Let's say we're starting with this setup:

To switch the parent of Objective B from KR 1 to a parent Objective, follow these steps:

  1. Create a new child Objective under Objective A the same parent Objective where your parent KR lives.

  2. Set its progress calculation to be Child objectives.

  3. Align Objective B under the new Objective you just created.

  4. Finally, edit the parent of your new Objective and make sure its progress calculation is Key Results and child Objectives.

  5. You should see something like this:

  6. At this point, you can get rid of your initial parent KR as it's no longer used.

  7. You can also refer to this video capturing the whole process.

Use Cascaded Key Results

Again, we're starting with this setup:

This time the goal is to change the parent, KR 1, and make it cascading. Then re-create each of the KRs under Objective B to contribute to the progress of KR 1. The beauty of this approach is that you're preserving the original setup almost identically. the cascaded children KRs will contribute to the progress on Objective B, and also directly change the progress of KR 1. Follow these steps:

  1. Edit Objective B and set its parent to be Objective A. Set it's progress to Key Results.

  2. Under Objective A click on the ellipsis menu of KR 1 and select cascade

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    Delete the line and click + Add Key Result.

  3. For Objective select Objective B, for Key Result select KR 3, add your target number as this is how much KR 3 will be contributing to KR 1's progress.

    Click + Add Key Result and for Objective select Objective B and select Key Result

    KR 4, add your target number as this how much KR 4 will be contributing to KR1's progress. Once done click on Cascade.

  4. As we can see in the above screen shot KR 3 & KR 4 are each contributing 50% to KR 1's overall target of 100%. In the screen shot below since our KR 3 has been updated to 34% we see it is 68% toward its 50% Target progress and contributes 34% to KR 1's overall 100% Goal.

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