Overview

Number of Opportunities that have remained in the same stage for the duration of a given timeframe. (Learn more about how Atrium Actions & Objects work to calculate metrics.)

Metric Time Vector:The point in time at which the opportunity was stuck in the same stage for the number of days specified.

Metric Value Vector:The count of all opportunities that remained in the same stage for the specified number of days.

Why It’s Important

This card tells you which opportunities you may need to dig into a little deeper during your pipeline reviews, to uncover why they’ve gotten stuck. It may be that a deal isn’t going anywhere and closing it out will give the AE who owns that deal more time to spend on more promising opportunities. It also may be that an AE, or the team as a whole, tends to get stuck in the same stage, and there are coaching opportunities to focus on the skills required to advanced opportunities from that stage.

Who It’s Useful For

AEs and their managers, AMs and their managers.

Definition

This card shows the count of opportunities where the Probability of that opportunity has not increased during a given timeframe. For a historical time period, the card shows opportunities that stayed at the same probability for the given timeframe at any point during that time period. In this way, it’s kind of the opposite of the Opportunities Advanced card, showing which opps have stayed in the same stage instead of those that have advanced. Like the Untouched Opps card, the SLA can be changed from 60 days when you are in the detailed card view, so that you can see how many opps have been in the same stage for other amounts of time. Additionally, if you’re using this card to look at historical time periods, you will see the stage at which the opportunity was stuck. I call that out because that will often be different from the opportunity’s current stage.

What Data Is Used

Opportunity data from SFDC. Fields used include Opportunity Owner, Probability (to determine stage movement), and opportunity created and closed dates.

Alerting

Alerting on this card looks at the number of new business opportunities that are stuck currently and compares that number to the AE’s historical average and to the average of the AE’s peers. Alerts will fire if the AE’s count of stuck opps is significantly higher or lower than his trailing 13 week average, or higher or lower than the peer average. The goal alert on this card compares the current number of stuck opportunities to the goal to determine whether the rep is achieving that goal.

Back of Card

The back of this card shows, for each stuck opportunity, the Opportunity Name, the Opportunity Stage, the number of days that the opportunity has been in that stage, and the Opportunity Type.

How to Use It

The Stuck Opportunities card calls out opportunities that may need additional support or may have gone dark, and adds alerting to let the manager know this proactively. A rep may have a large pipeline but a high number of stuck opportunities, meaning that a portion of that pipeline may be at-risk, which is important information for forecasting and for understanding pipeline health.

FAQs and Additional Details

An opportunity changed stages, but the card is still showing the previous stage.

If an opportunity has advanced a stage, if you are looking at a time period when the opp was stuck, the "Stuck Stage" column on the back of the card will show the stage the opp was previously stuck in even after it has advanced.

If an opportunity is moved to a previous stage or another stage with the same stage probability, Atrium will display the stage the opp was stuck in before it moved. This card is designed to help you see where opportunities are stalled and not advancing, so Atrium does not count a move to an earlier stage as becoming "unstuck."

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