Better Goals 🎯 Documentation

Owned by Kristof Muhi Goose
Last updated: Mar 22, 2024
5 min read

Table of Contents

Introduction

Welcome to Better Goals, a JIRA Marketplace app that revolutionizes the way teams focus on their sprint and iteration goals. Better Goals offers a solution to the common problem of losing sight of the bigger picture among a sea of JIRA tickets. This documentation will guide you through installation, key features, and usage, ensuring you make the most out of Better Goals🎯.

 

Installation

As a JIRA Marketplace app, it integrates seamlessly with your existing JIRA environment!

Installing Better Goals is easy and straightforward.

Just go to our marketplace, and install it for your Cloud instance! https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1231053/better-goals-for-kanban-boards?tab=overview&hosting=cloud

 

Configuration

No additional configuration needed in the beginning. Just go to your Company Managed Kanban or Scrum Board, select any board you would like to have Better Goals 🎯, when you opened the board, click on Better Goals 🎯 icon and that will enables you to configure your first goal for that specific board!

 

 

Better Goals 🎯 can be configured per board and per project based.

Every board (unique boardID) will have its own Better Goals 🎯 values!

For JIRA Admins

If you want to disable Better Goals 🎯 go to Manager your Apps:

Select Better Goals on the left side bar, and you can disable it for your projects by switching the checkbox and accepting the prompt.

Key Features

  • Visualize your goals: Keep your team's objectives front and center on your Kanban board, enabling everyone to stay focused and up-to-date on progress.

  • Align on measurable outcomes: Define clear, measurable goals tied to customer impact, business targets, or product outcomes.

  • Facilitate goal-driven discussions: Foster team collaboration with a shared understanding of your objectives.

  • Track progress in real-time: Monitor the status of your goals to make informed decisions about priorities and identify any roadblocks.

  • Integrate seamlessly with JIRA: Enjoy a hassle-free experience with smooth integration within your existing JIRA environment.

Usage Guide

This section offers a step-by-step guide on how to use Better Goals.

 

  1. Setup your first iteration

    1. To Setup your first iteration open Better Goals 🎯 from your board.

    2. Click on Add an other goal.

    4. You can add up to 500 characters as goals!

      1. Please make sure you are adding measurable goals, keep it short, simple, consize and use language everybody in your team understands! Read more here how to setup measurable and meaningful goals:

        1. How to create Better Goals 🎯 for Kanban teams?

    5. You can add an Emoji to your goals by pressing on Windows (Windows logo key + . (period) ) or on MacOS ( CONTROL + COMMAND + SPACE )

      1. or Click on our Emoji Dropdown at the end of the Edit Field, search for the desired emoji you

    6. You can add up to 3 goals maximum per iteration!

  2. Edit your goals!

    1. Edit and set your Iteration Length

      1. You need to select the length of your iteration

        1. You can choose from 1 week up until 4 weeks.

    2. Edit and set your Start Date

      1. You need to define the start date for your iteration.

      4. You can do it by clicking on the todays date, and select a future date when your iteration starts!

      5. When you configured everything just hit READY TO START and your journey begins!

  3. Edit your goals for a running iteration.

    1. To edit your currently running iteration to change a value in your goal or slightly modify it:

      1. You need to click on EDIT GOALS in the Iteration view

      2. After that you can change your Goals, Start Date, and Iteration Length!

  4. Access your previous goals from History.

    1. Click on EDIT GOALS

    2. Click on the HISTORY tab in the header

    3. Here you can access all previous goals.

    4. You can copy and paste any goals you would like to share with your team!

  5. How to finish your goals:

    1. When you finished any of your goals, just click on the Checkbox for the achieved goal!

  6. What happens when you finished with all your goals:

    1. When you have finished all your goals, just click on Start New Iteration CTA

  7. How to start the next iteration:

    1. When the time expired or you finished all your goals you will have a “Start a new iteration” CTA to get to the new iteration start view:

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

This section addresses common questions and concerns about Better Goals.

 

Can I disable Better Goals 🎯 per board or per project based?

  • Currently you can disable Better Goals 🎯 only per Jira instance. This is coming later!

Can I use Better Goals 🎯 for my Scrum Project?

  • Yes! Better Goals 🎯 can be used on Scrum Boards as well! This is NOT impacting your Spring goals! So you can freely setup and visualise your team goals there

How can I export my finished goals?

  • You just need to EDIT GOALS, go to History section, and just select the desired goals you want to export, copy and paste them into your Jira ticket, slack message or email! Ctrl + C/CMD+ C and Ctrl + V/CMD + V

Can I get a notification when a goal is finished?

  • Not at the moment, we are looking into webhook/slack based notification support!

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Support and Feedback

We're here to help. If you have any issues, feedback, or feature requests, please reach out to us through our support portal or send an email to support email.

For those interested in JIRA on-prem, we are gathering interest here.

Remember, your feedback helps us make Better Goals 🎯 even better.