The Bullet Graph

A one-page bullet-graph scorecard: each metric is a single horizontal bar read against a target tick, laid on a track of graded qualitative bands, so you see not just the number but whether it is short, fair or good. It is the compact, honest cousin of a gauge — stack several metrics down the page and you have a one-glance review where a green bar cleared its target and a red bar fell short, no squinting at needles. Because each row keeps its own scale, metrics in completely different units — dollars of revenue, a satisfaction score, tickets closed, active users, uptime — still line up neatly and read the same way, with the exact value and the gap to target spelled out beside each bar; leave the scale off same-unit rows and they share one axis so their bars compare directly. The graph reads higher-as-better, so track the thing you want to grow. Use it for a quarterly OKR or KPI check, a weekly review of your own numbers, a fundraising or sales dashboard, a fitness or training scorecard, a reading or writing pace, a savings-goals panel, or any handful of measures you want to grade against their marks in one picture. List a label and a value per line, add a target and a scale where you have them, and the bars, bands, ticks and read-outs draw themselves; leave it blank to print empty tracks and mark them up by hand.

• Landscape
• 1 page
• Tracking

Best for: Grading a handful of metrics against their targets in one glance — a quarterly KPI check, a weekly review, a goals dashboard — as horizontal bars with target ticks and graded bands.