How to display backlog size evolution

[Jérémy Cohen Solal]

Hello,

The company I work actually suffers from a HUGE amount of tickets (bugs, evolutions...)

This "backlog" grows daily.

We would like to follow the evolution of the backlog size day by day (or week by week).

I 'd like a widget to display (table or graph) something like

Date | Number of tickets in backlog 

2021-01-01 | 100

2021-01-02 | 110

2021-01-03 | 109

...

The number of tickets would be the number of not resolved tickets at the specified date.

Thank you for the help

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Jérémy Cohen Solal 

Welcome to the community.

Is this tracked in a single project/board in Jira or in multiple projects/boards?

A Cumulative Flow Diagram, available on a per board basis, will provide you with a chart that shows the number of issues in each status/column on each day. You can refine the report to show only the status/columns you desire. So one that doesn't include the Done values might look like this.

That is the built-in solution to your reporting need. This chart is not available to display on a Jira Dashboard though.

[Jérémy Cohen Solal]

Thanx, so sa it is not available on dashbaord...

[Trudy Claspill]

Correct. If you need to display something in a Jira dashboard you will have to use a third party app.

[Martins Vanags -eazyBI-]

@Jérémy Cohen Solal 

Perhaps you can explore the eazyBI app. You can create the report with backlog items over time. eazyBI can import historical data from Jira.

See one public report example with issues history changes over time in statuses.

https://eazybi.com/accounts/1000/cubes/Issues/reports/187032-cumulative-flow-diagram

Martins / eazyBI support

[andy.smith]

Is there any way to get this to display as a widget in a Jira dashboard? All I want is the change in backlog numbers over time, perhaps one figure for total number of backlog items each previous month.