Outcomes
- Matt Kepple
Outcomes are the difference your work makes.
Outcomes are your hopes for the work you do.
Progress Trackers are the way you measure them.
So to measure progress towards outcomes, you need to add one or more Progress Trackers (Indicators) to your outcomes.
What are outcomes?
Think about the difference your work makes in terms of:
What difference does your programme make to how people think?
What difference does your programme make to what people or organisations do; and how they behave?
What difference does your programme make to what people or organisations have; be it financial wealth or mental health?
Each difference that your programme makes to the way people think is an outcome.
Each difference that your programme makes to the way people behave is an outcome.
Each difference that your programme makes to what people have is an outcome.
Think, Do and Have are less ambiguous than terms like ‘short-term outcomes', ‘medium-term outcomes’ and ‘long-term outcomes’ as those terms can get misinterpreted due to the length of a 'term’ being subjective.
How outcomes work
Every outcome must have one or more indicators linked to it
(Indicators are also called progress trackers)
You can visualise individuals' progress towards outcomes
When there are several Multiple Choice progress trackers (Scale Indicators) linked to an outcome, you can visualise progress towards that outcome using https://makerble.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DEV/pages/26017793
Add outcomes to projects
To see progress towards outcomes, you need to add outcomes to projects
This will then add the indicators within that outcome to those projects as well
Look at outcomes strategically
So when you look at a project’s Impact Scorecard, you see your outcomes arranged according to where they fit in your strategy