How to I assign a goal to a team in Atlas
Asked by Shaolin Life:

I was searching for a way to add my team to a goal so that I could search goals based on teams. I can find a way to do this. Please help


Answers:
author: Sing Chen
body: We're in early days of piloting Atlas and the goal-project structure is working well for us:

* We created goals and projects that contribute towards those goals.
* Teams and individuals are assigned to those projects.
* Those project-aligned teams are then associated with the goal.
* The way we are using goals is as 'containers' representing business outcomes - those business outcomes don't mean anything unless we have projects that deliver some/part of the work needed to achieve the outcome.

![2023-05-09 11 48 33.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256055i78345E48C0423E6F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2023-05-09 11 48 33.png")


author: Daniella Latham
body: Hi [@Shaolin Life](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4312565) - [@Sing Chen](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5143156) has the right answer for you!

Teams are added to goals based on the contributing projects that are linked to the goal.

![CleanShot 2023-05-09 at 15.08.06.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256131i7D6C15F55DEECD98/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "CleanShot 2023-05-09 at 15.08.06.png")

You can filter goals by going to the Goals directory page and choosing the Team you want as a filter.

![CleanShot 2023-05-09 at 15.09.26.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256132iCDBD2EBD12FA26A1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "CleanShot 2023-05-09 at 15.09.26.png")


author: Cyprien Kraaijpoel
body: I don't see the added value of being *forced* to add a project to a goal, in order to see the contributing teams. This means that all activities must be performed with projects in Atlas in order to properly track OKR's, where-as not all projects are well suited to the Atlas format...  

I honestly don't see the set-back in having a 'two-way street' in this regard;  
1. Keeping the current functionality of showing teams through linked projects.

2. Allowing teams to be linked in themselves.


author: Christina Kinney
body: We had to assign a goal to a project, then a team to a project, and then the team was responsible for the goal.

This is way too complicated, and we hope there is a better answer, too.

comments: author: Daniella Latham
body: Hey Christina,

What would the ideal state look like for you?

Thanks, Daniella


author: Christina Kinney
body: We were hoping to wrap our OKRs into Atlas - having the "big goals" as guiding principles, then the goals as they exist now in atlas being the KPIs/goals that feed into the larger, company-wide goals. The "subgoals" functionality exists, but we cannot default everyone into being associated to a top-level goal. They're assigned instead to projects, which are associated to various sub-goals of the main company-wide goals.

In this way, I think what I'm asking for would be a top layer of goals, to which everything and everyone could map. We can currently answer the question, "what KPIs/sub-goals does this project map to?" but we cannot answer the question, "what company-wide goal does this project/KPI/Sub-goal map to?


author: Christina Kinney
body: see: ![100 + OKR Examples: Take Ideas to Action in 2023 - Weekdone](https://static.weekdone.com/wp-content/uploads/Components-of-OKR-1024x753.png)


author: Julia Holovko - Oboard - OKR Board for Jira _ Confluence
body: Hi [@Christina Kinney](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5214169) ,

if you consider any alternative solutions, you can create the structure as in the screenshot above with [OKR Board for Jira](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1219988/okr-board-for-jira?tab=overview&hosting=cloud) -- it is the most popular OKR app on Atlassian Marketplace and I am part of the team.

Basically, you can connect your goals/OKRst to Jira Initiatives, Epics, and Tasks in any way suitable for your org and assign a team/group on any level.

For example, in the screenshot below the way the company organized its structure is as follows: Company annual goal -\> Annual KR assigned to it -\> Group goals -\> Group KRs under them with Jira Epic and Jira task contributing to the Group goal.

![OKR Stucture.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/256858i02D2D1A23D1C27E0/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "OKR Stucture.png")

If you're interested in learning more about the OKR structure and how it can be customized to your specific needs, I invite you to schedule a demo through our app page.

BR,

Julia