Progress Measurement

What is the challenge?

What I am observing is that progress on roadmaps appears to be measured based exclusively on detailed estimates as Actual/Detailed estimate.

This works great for things that have detailed estimates, but much of our future as yet unplanned work has only initial estimates. The result is that if I have an initiative with 12 monthly features in it all with initial estimates of 10 pts each but only 3 have detailed estimates also equal to 10 pts, and 1 of those three with detailed estimates is Done, the progress on my Initiative is ~33%. What I would like is that Best Estimate (which I understand to be Initial if no Detailed and Detailed otherwise) is used here. In the above case that would provide the correct measure of progress based on available data = 10/120 = ~8.3%.

What is the impact?

Progress is incorrectly overstated

Describe your idea

Provide a way to measure progress based on best estimate not simply detailed estimate.