What are outcomes and why are they useful?

If you’re unsure what an outcome is or why it exists, help is at hand

What are outcomes on Makerble?

Makerble is designed to help you achieve your project’s ambitions

On Makerble you can turn your project’s ambitions into 5 stages of progress

Because those 5 stages of progress are measurable, you now have an easy way to see how well your project is doing at achieving its ambitions

Activity and Engagement are things that you can simply count. Those are called outputs

Potential, Behaviour and Success aren’t things that you can simply count. They need to be defined. So

  • firstly you should describe them a statement with a direction. Each of these statements is an outcome.

  • secondly, you should find something you can look at that shows you whether progress is happening or not. This is called an indicator (or a Progress Tracker).

Here’s an example

  • Let’s imagine that your project goal is to decrease obesity by changing people’s eating habits.

  • Your 5 stages of progress might look like this:

On Makerble you can measure your progress at each of these 5 stages

You can create these 5 stages of progress on Makerble and add them to your project

Then you can start measuring progress at each stage on your project

  • Measure Activity and Engagement

  • Measure Potential

  • Measure Behaviour

  • Measure Success

So because you have defined your outcomes as statements and then added Progress Trackers to them, you can now see the change that’s happened over time.

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