📣 Agile Gadgets update: Smarter forecasting, better visibility, and in-context insights 🚀

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Hey Atlassian Community! 👋

Broken Build has released version 2.2 for Agile Burnup Burndown Charts and Agile Cycle Time Charts, introducing powerful forecasting capabilities, enhanced visibility features, improved chart customization, and work item content insights. These updates are also included in Agile Reports & Gadgets 8.2 - our comprehensive bundle that combines the functionality of both apps.

🎯 Key Highlights:

1. Agile Cycle Time Charts 2.2:

• Time in Status chart in the right bar of the work item layout

• Transition count table without leaving work item context

📊 Available in: Agile Cycle Time Charts

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

2. Agile Burnup Burndown Charts 2.2:

• Alternative throughput data sources for forecasting before projects establish a velocity history

• Health Metrics with key indicators for quick project assessment

• Metric visibility configuration for customized chart displays

• Enhanced remaining work modeling with dedicated sidebar access

• Completed work breakdown for effort distribution analysis

• New templates for Velocity Percentile and Monte Carlo scenarios

📊 Available in: Agile Burnup Burndown Charts

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

📦 Bundle Option: All features available in Agile Reports & Gadgets 8.2, which includes the complete functionality of both individual apps.

🚀 What's new in Agile Cycle Time Charts 2.2

⏱️ Time in Status chart & Transition count table in work item sidebar

🎯 Solution to context switching: You can now see how much time a work item has spent in a particular status, as well as the transition count to each status, without leaving the work item context.

✅ What you see:

• Time in status is displayed as a chart

• Transition count to each status in a table

• All data is visible in the right bar of the work item layout

📊 Available in: Agile Cycle Time Charts (included in Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle)

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

🚀 What's New in Agile Burnup Burndown Charts 2.2

1. ⏱️ Alternative Throughput data for early forecasting

⚠️ The challenge: Existing forecasting solutions can predict delivery dates only when sufficient throughput data exists. During the initial phase of a project, when your team has not yet completed any work items, traditional forecasting fails.

✅ The solution: Use an alternative data source to obtain throughput data for building a forecast. Any data source can provide velocity data for the primary one.

⚙️ How it works:

• Pull throughput data from another team's board

• Use similar project historical data

• Configure the delivery team board JQL to retrieve throughput data

• Apply the capacity allocation coefficient for scenario modeling

📌 Practical application: If you've decomposed your project into stories with estimated Story Points and want to use your delivery team's throughput to forecast the delivery date, you can use your delivery team board JQL to retrieve that throughput data.

💡 Pro Tip: Use a JQL filter for the board instead of the Scrum board as a data source, because you want a weekly forecast based on weekly throughput rather than sprints.

📊 Available in: Agile Burnup Burndown Charts (included in Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle)

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

2. 🩺 Health metrics

🎯 Purpose: When your burnup or burndown chart displays a dynamic forecast, Health Metrics highlight key indicators for quickly assessing the situation beyond just the projected delivery date.

🔎 Health metrics:

1. Completion status – the percentage of completed work compared to the total scope. Useful for understanding overall progress.

2. Scope change (total and average) – the difference between the scope at the start and end of the selected time frame. This metric reveals how the scope is evolving and the rate at which it's increasing.

3. Number of unestimated work items – an indicator of how much scope remains unestimated, which can mask future increases in Story Points.

⚙️ Customization: You can turn off any metric if needed.

📊 Available in: Agile Burnup Burndown Charts (included in Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle)

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

3. 🎨 Metric visibility configuration

🎯 User feedback response: Flexible configuration options for lines and labels on the chart, allowing each user to ensure the graph emphasizes only the key data.

✅ Applies to:

• 📈 Burnup charts

• 📉 Burndown charts

• 🏃 Sprint/Daily Burndown charts

📊 Available in: Agile Burnup Burndown Charts (included in Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle)

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

4. 🔧 Hidden Remaining work features uncovered

🎯 Improvement: Robust tools for modeling different scenarios related to remaining work have been moved from the Forecast dropdown to a dedicated section in the right sidebar, making it easier to experiment with different options.

⚙️ Remaining work value:

• Auto – the chart pulls the value from the primary data source

• What-if – allows you to set a specific number

• JQL Filter – narrows the scope of the remaining work

⚙️ Remaining work growth:

• None – assumes the scope won't change

• Average – calculated using historical data

• What-if – allows you to set a specific number

📊 Available in: Agile Burnup Burndown Charts (included in Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle)

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

5. ✅ All completed work comprehensive breakdown

🎯 New capability: Break down all completed work displayed on the chart, allowing you to analyze where the effort was invested and segment it in various ways.

📊 Available in: Agile Burnup Burndown Charts (included in Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle)

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

6. ⚡ Quick-start forecasting templates

🎯 Simplified access: Two additional templates eliminate the need to navigate to Scenario settings to disable basic scenarios and enable Velocity Percentile or Monte Carlo ones.

• Previous Workflow: Navigate to Scenario settings → Disable basic scenarios → Enable advanced scenarios

• New Workflow: Select template → Begin analysis ✨

📊 Available in: Agile Burnup Burndown Charts (included in Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle)

☁️ Compatible with: Cloud and Data Center

🎯 Explore interactive examples

See these features in real Jira environments before implementation:

🔗 Scrum burndown chart – Alternative throughput data in action

🔗 Release burnup chart – Explore Health Metrics dashboard

🔗 Sprint burndown chart – Experiment with the remaining work configuration

🔗 Scrum burnup chart – See chart visibility controls

We're continuously expanding our examples library with new use cases! 🚀

🚀 Enhanced Agile analytics are ready for your team!

These updates deliver substantial improvements across both charting solutions. 🎉 The Agile Burnup Burndown Charts app introduces sophisticated forecasting tools, including alternative velocity sources, automated health indicators, and streamlined scenario modeling - perfect for teams managing complex initiatives. Meanwhile, the Agile Cycle Time Charts app brings workflow intelligence directly into your issue context with embedded status tracking, eliminating unnecessary navigation and keeping critical timing data at your fingertips.

👉 Start exploring these capabilities today. Both apps are available on the Atlassian Marketplace with free trial access, allowing you to evaluate how these features integrate with your existing Jira workflows.

Agile Reports & Gadgets is a comprehensive bundle that combines both apps into one integrated solution, ideal for teams requiring full-spectrum analytics - from high-level project forecasting to granular flow metrics.

Prefer standalone implementations? Each app is available individually:

• Agile Burnup Burndown Charts

• Agile Cycle Time Charts

Whether you're forecasting delivery dates or tracking workflow efficiency, these tools provide the visibility your team needs. 🚀🙌

🎯 See charts in action with our interactive examples.

💬 Have questions or feedback? Contact support