It's common for projects to start up, sometimes seemingly out of thin air. Someone has a good idea or someone starts working on something, and all of a sudden, the work has grown into a fully fledged project, occupying its part of the finite work capacity and cognitive resources of the team.

In some cases this might be desirable, whereas in other cases it might divert precious attention and effort away from the primary objectives of the organization.

In order to make it more clear which projects are designed to impact an objective and which aren't, an objective indicator is shown in the project item view. If the indicator is green, the project is associated with one or more objectives. Hover over the indicator to see which objectives the project is designed to impact.

If the indicator is grey, the project has no associated objectives.

In addition to the indicator on each individual project, the right column of the project list (in the context of a team or the entire the organization) includes a progress bar indicating the percentage of projects associated with an objective.

You can associate a project with an objective by going to the objective in question and adding the project as an initiative to the objective.