We’ve talked about the status symbols of low-level items before (those 5 types of status). Check the latest plan, once again:
Do you notice the symbols in front of new server and other higher-level deliverables?
Those symbols show the actual progress of the item:
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Nearly zero◔
About one quarters◑
About half◕
About three quarters●
Done or nearly done
If you want to have more detailed values, hover your mouse pointer over the symbol, and it will show you three numbers: The first one is the actual progress and the second one is the planned progress (the last one is a secret for now!). In our example, those values are 40% and 20% for new server.
A better way of checking that is to open the item, and see the information in its header:
The bullet graph visualizes the progress of deliverables that have children. The lowest level of deliverables that don’t have children have a status diagram like this: