Glossary

Plain-language definitions of every term in the app.

A quick reference for the words you will see throughout KManagement. Terms are grouped by topic; within each group they build on one another.

People & structure

Workspace (company): Your organization’s private space in the app. All your data lives here.
Team: A group of people. Each team member is marked as the team’s manager or a member.
Title: A job position such as Junior, Middle, or Senior. Titles can carry preset targets and bonus amounts, and can be used to assign a framework to everyone with that title.

Framework: The tree that defines how a person is scored: the things you measure and how much each one counts. This is the central thing managers build.
Node: Any item in a framework tree — either a group or a metric.
Group: A node that holds other nodes and combines their scores into one. Groups let you build sections like “Productivity”, “Quality”, and “Behavior”.
Metric: The actual thing being measured at the bottom of the tree, such as story points delivered or number of bugs.
Metric type: The rule that turns a raw number into a score. Examples: target-vs-actual, ratio, percentage, yes/no, a count, or a formula. See Frameworks.
Weight: How much a node counts compared to its siblings. Weights are balanced automatically, so they do not need to add up to 100.
Achievement %: A node’s score as a percentage. It can go above 100% for over-performance.
Final KPI %: The single headline percentage for a person in a cycle — the top of the tree.

Grade scale: The set of letter grades (for example D, C, B, A, A+, A++) and the percentage range each one covers.
Grade: The letter a final KPI % maps to.
Demotion rule: A rule that can lower a grade when a specific area is too weak — for example, forcing a low grade if discipline falls below a threshold. Rules only ever lower a grade.
Coefficient: A multiplier tied to each grade, used to work out a bonus.
Bonus target / bonus amount: A confidential target amount set per person; the actual bonus is the target multiplied by the coefficient, frozen at the moment results are calculated.

Assignment: The link that attaches a framework to a team, a title, or an individual.
Cycle: One evaluation period (usually a month). A cycle moves through the states draft → active → locked → closed.
Measurement: A person’s raw numbers for one metric in one cycle. The source can be manual, Jira, a violation record, or a team roll-up.
Missing-value policy: What happens when a metric has no value: skip it, score it 0, score it 100, or block the calculation until it is filled in.
Result: The calculated score for each node, plus the final KPI %, grade, and bonus.
Snapshot / version: A frozen copy of the framework saved when it is published or when a cycle starts, so past results never change if the framework is later edited.
Provenance: Where a number came from (manual entry, Jira, a violation, a team roll-up) and whether it was overridden by hand.

Approval: The sign-off step where results are requested, acknowledged or disputed, and finally approved before a cycle closes.
Comment / mention: A note attached to a result or a single metric. Mentioning a teammate with @ notifies them.
Violation: A recorded discipline event that can feed into a metric.
Notification: An in-app or email alert about something that needs your attention.