Targets, progress and status
Progress ring
Shows completion as a filled fraction of a ring.
- Indicator
- Progress
- Composition
What it answers
What fraction of the goal is complete?
- Shape
- Partially filled circular ring
- What it shows
- Progress toward completion.
Example
The question
How much of this year’s sales target have we reached?
Sales target reached, year to date
Illustrative data. It belongs to no company.
When to use it
Use it when
A compact single progress measure.
Avoid it when
Many rings or exact comparisons between similar fractions.
How to read it
Read the labelled fraction rather than estimating arc length alone.
The data you need
- Layout
- Long table
- Fields
- Item: text; Completed: number; Goal: positive number
- One row is
- One item with completed amount and total goal. What is the grain?
- Rules
- Calculate completion as Completed/Goal. Define negative or over-goal handling.
- Optional
- Alternative: FractionComplete between 0 and 1 with an explicit scale.
- Preparation
- Confirm the metric definition, reporting period, target and favourable direction. Calculate rates or progress before applying transparent status rules.
- Units
- Completion fraction =Completed/Goal; ring fullness is this fraction, not an independent measure.
Worked example
Completed 72/goal 100 fills 72% of the ring;28% remains.
| Item | Completed | Goal |
|---|---|---|
| ProjectA | 72 | 100 |