Now you can test out a new dashboard gadget powered by ActionableAgile! We plan to release many gadgets but have started with one - a Cycle Time Summary gadget.
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Understanding the Dashboard View
The Cycle Time Summary dashboard gadget provides a percentile based view of how long it took you to get work done in the past.
85% of items completed in the past 90 days took 14 days or less
Calculating your cycle time with a certain probability lets you communicate a probabilistic forecast for the future (assuming the future you’re forecasting for will roughly resemble the past you’re pulling the data from.)
How is this useful? The above assumption notwithstanding, you can expect a new work item you start to finish in 14 days or less 85% of the time. This expectation is something that Scrum and Kanban communities are beginning to call a Service Level Expectation or SLE. The SLE is intended as an internal facing measure that teams can use to measure and manage predictability.
Read more about cycle time and the SLE in our Cycle Time Scatterplot documentation.
Adding the gadget to a dashboard
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Gadget Title | This will be the text that displays as the title of the Gadget. The default text is “ActionableAgile Cycle Time”. | ||
Project, filter, and/or board | Choose the project, filter and/or board you want to grab data from.
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Certainty | What percentile do you want the gadget to use to calculate the cycle time summary? The default is 85%. | ||
Max completion age (in days) | How many days back should the gadget go to grab data for the calculation of cycle time? The default is 90 days. | ||
Override done statuses | By default we consider work items done if the status they are in have a status category of completed. These workflow statuses matching this default query will be shown as selected. However, you can edit the statuses the gadget uses to calculate cycle time. Why? Well, status categories are not always properly configured. Sometimes, you might want to calculate cycle time for a different part of the workflow - how long it takes to get items to Release Ready, for instance. Remove selected statuses you no longer want by clicking on the x icon in the relevant status. To add additional statuses that signify completed work, click on the down arrow in the form field and select the desired workflow status.
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Finished Configuring? You’ll see that the number of issues matching your query are shown in the bottom left. Once you are happy with your configuration, click
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