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ow 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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Once added, the gadget displays the configuration screen

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The screen contains the following configurations:

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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.

Info

If you choose projects or boards it will use all completed work items. If you don’t want to exclude a subset of items, you will need to create a filter and use that instead.

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 “not yet started” if the status they are in have a status category of backlog. 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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You may see statuses that aren’t relevant to your work items as we have to query for all workflow statuses in your Jira instance and their status categories.

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.

Info

You may see statuses that aren’t relevant to your work items as we have to query for all workflow statuses in your Jira instance and their status categories.

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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.)

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