Cumulative flow diagram for multiple Scum teams

[Vasanth Krishnan]

Hello All, 

Is there a way to use the Cumulative Flow Diagram for multiple Scrum teams? 

We have multiple Scrum teams working on a single product, and we want to gain an overall view of how the work is flowing for these Scrum teams. 
Can a Cumulative flow diagram help here? If not, is there any other way? 

Any pointers on this will be of great help. 

Thank you, 

Vaz

[Iryna Komarnitska_SaaSJet_]

Hi @Vasanth Krishnan ,

The Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) in Jira is typically designed for individual boards or teams, providing a clear view of workflow progression within that team's scope. Unfortunately, native Jira features don't directly support creating a single CFD for multiple Scrum teams working on a unified product.

However, there are alternative ways to visualize and analyze your workflow across multiple Scrum teams, and my team has developed a tool precisely for this kind of detailed analysis.

You might find our "Time in Status" app helpful, which provides multiple advanced reporting capabilities beyond traditional CFDs:

• Average Time Report: See how long items typically stay in each status across all teams.

• Status Count and Transition Count Reports: Understand how often work items cycle through specific statuses, helping to identify bottlenecks.

• Pivot Table: Customize reports to visualize combined data from multiple Scrum teams, giving you a comprehensive view of workflow and performance. You can generate a cross-team report using pivots.

• Dashboard Gadgets: Monitor real-time updates directly within Jira dashboards, tailored to aggregate data from multiple Scrum teams into easily digestible visuals.

The app also enables exporting data to CSV, XLSX, Power BI, EazyBI, or Google Sheets for deeper analysis outside Jira.

In your case, you can generate a Jira filter for the tasks you need and create a status report in the form of an area chart. For convenience, you can change the display of values to percentages, and it will essentially remain the same CFD.

If you're interested, my team would be happy to guide you through setting this up to meet your specific needs - Try a trial or book a demo

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

Hi @Vasanth Krishnan,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community. 

Yes, a CFD chart would be useful for an overall view of the combined work of multiple Scrum teams. Jira offers a Cumulative Flow Diagram report available to the project, so first take a look on this. As far as I now it is per-project and cannot be customized too much, but it could be enough for your needs. 

If this native Jira report is not enough, you will could to look for a plugin (app) on Atlassian Marketplace that provides such chart.

In case you want to try a plugin, our Great Gadgets app offers a Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) gadget that is highly configurable and flexible.

All you have to do it to configure it with a filter/JQL that returns the issues of all your Scrum teams. You can then choose to visualize the data by count of issues in each status,  status category or board column, or by sum of story points or time fields.

The same app offers some other gadgets that could be useful for an overall view. For example, with the Release Burndown Burnup Chart gadget you can see an overall (cross-teams) burndown chart, while with the Kanban Velocity / Throughput gadget you can see the overall (cross-teams) velocity.

See more details in this article: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/App-Central-articles/How-to-track-scaled-agile-SAFe-projects-in-Jira-with-Great/ba-p/1929694 

Hope this helps. 

Danut.