This week is a huge milestone for us at BrightGauge, as we celebrate 4 years since going live! We knew we needed to mark this accomplishment with some kind of special feature release, and we figured 4 years of irony was long enough - we should go ahead and take care of the confusion. You see, with a name like BrightGauge people often assume that we should have an actual gauge somewhere in the platform… but to their disbelief, that has never been an option. So (drumroll please), today we’re thrilled to let our community know that we’re living up to our name!
After hearing enough of the irony comments, we’ve released the first-ever update to our gauge styles with what is known as the Progress Gauge. The beauty of this new gauge is you’re able to set the minimum and maximum, and then set threshold on the color of the gauge as the number progresses.
In the example above we can very easily see that our team of 4 engineers has a goal of 32 billable hours for each day (8 hours each, per day). By navigating to the “Design Settings > Min, Max” you can set the range for the Progress Gauge as shown below:
Once you have your Min, Max set up, it’s time to add some Color Thresholds so that the gauge will change color as each threshold is achieved. So in this example, we have anything under 28 hours the gauge should be red:
With this new Progress Gauge, you’re not only able to track the progress of your KPI but also introduce colors to make it easy to spot areas that need to be addressed.
Here’s a real life example of how we use this at BrightGauge. Last month we announced our new Calculated Metrics feature and we are tracking how many of our customers have used the featured to understand the adoption rate. As of this blog post only 33% of our Advanced Plan customers have used this awesome new feature which means we better get the word out.
So what are you waiting for? Get started on your version of the Progress Gauge, and let us know what metrics you’re tracking with it.
And P.S. - if you have the Advanced Plan, dive on in! Calculated Metrics opens up a whole new world of possibilities with your metrics… and if it seems overwhelming at first, don’t forget that our Data Customization team is here to help (for free).
