“Project overview” dashboard template

This dashboard provides agile metrics that provide insight into productivity through the different stages of the software development lifecycle.

Controls on the dashboard

Use the following controls to configure the dashboard:

Charts on the dashboard

This dashboard contains the following charts:

Net flow of work

Measures the team’s focus on already committed work items

Committed work items are work items that transitioned to an “In progress” status category. A work item is completed when its final transition is to a “Done” status category.

This chart calculates net flow of work for each week in the selected date range. Net flow of work is the difference between the committed work items completed and the new work items committed during the same week.

Defect ratio

The defect ratio is the percentage of defects completed out of the total number of work items completed in the selected date range for each project. A defect is a work item with a “Bug” work type.

You can use this to measure the quality improvement of a project over time.

In addition to the other controls on this dashboard, you can also filter this chart by work type.

Throughput

Measures the team’s performance by calculating the number of work items completed each week for each project

Responsiveness

Measures the amount of time it takes to complete any given work item

For each project, this chart calculates the average cycle time of the work items completed during that week. Cycle time is the total time in days that it took for a work item to get started then completed. More specifically, it’s the time elapsed from when the work item first transitioned to an “In progress” status category to when it last transitioned to a “Done” status category.