doneness

The extent to which a food has been cooked.

Testing the temperature with a candy thermometer is the most accurate way to determine the doneness of a syrup.

Unlike meat cookery, in which doneness is specified by customer order and determined by temperature, ...

The property of being finished; completion.

You can use a metaphor as a loose form of doneness testing. In one workshop, we used a bull's-eye. I created a poster with a bull's-eye showing concentric circles with the label "100%" in the center.

EVR is intended to give you objective evidence of partial doneness, something that will allow you to draw—and believe in—a picture like this: There will still be a period early in the project when progress is supported only by faith.