JQL Question: How to display cycle time within columns besides using CFD?

[Mister Femi]

Hi, I want to improve flow in my team by creating transparency on how long issues stay in particular columns on the Jira board. What JQL can I use?

Thanks

[Karolina Wons_SaaSJet · Accepted solution]

Hello @Mister Femi 

I'm not sure whether it's convenient and available with a JQL, but as an alternative, you can try a solution described in this short use case on how to get Cycle and Lead time for Jira issues. 

This solution is developed by my SaaSJet team, so let me know if you have any questions.

Hope it helps

[Mehmet A _Bloompeak_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mister Femi

As an alternative, you can try Status Time Reports app developed by our team. It mainly provides reports and gadgets based on how much time passed in each status.

Here is the online demo link, you can see it in action and try without installing the app.

• This app has a dynamic status grouping feature so that you can generate various valuable reports as time in status, time in assignee, status entry dates and status counts, cycle time and lead time, average/sum reports by any field(e.g. average in progress time by project, average cycle time by issue creation month).

• You can search issues by Project, Issue Type, Status, Assignee, Issue Creation/Resolution Date(and any other Date field) and JQL Query.
• Status durations are calculated according to the working calendar you define. Once you enter your working calendar into the app, it takes your working schedule into account too. That is, "In Progress" time of an issue opened on Friday at 5 PM and closed on Monday at 9 AM, will be a few hours rather than 3 days.
• You can set different duration formats.
• You can export reports in CSV file format and open them in MS Excel.
• You can also add this app as a gadget to your Jira dashboards and reach “Status Time” from Issue Detail page.
• You can enable/disable access to Status Time reports&gadgets and Issue Detail page per project, users, groups or project role.

If you are looking for a free solution, you can try the limited version Status Time Free.

Note: If you are interested in cycle and lead time, you can have a look at the article below.

Cycle Time and Lead Time in Jira: Productivity Measurement with Two Critical Parameters

Hope it helps.

[Rahul_RVS · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mister Femi 

If you would be interested in a readymade solution, you can try out our plugin,

Time in Status Reports 

The add-on provides the time in each status for the entire lifecycle of the issue and you can filter by issue type as well. You can also combine your statuses to define your lead/cycle/resolution time and also extract the transitions history of the issues. The main features of the app are as below

• Multiple types of Time in Status Reports. Excel Export available for all status reports.
  
  • Time in Status
  • Time with Assignee
  • Time in Status with Assignee
  • Time with Assignee per Status
  • Status/Assignee Count
  • Multiple Transition Reports
  • Avg Time reports
• Status grouping
• Save your reports
• CSV Export
• Multiple chart types

[Emre Toptancı _OBSS_]

Hello @Mister Femi

You can't do this with basic JQL but a marketplace app can help.

If you are OK with using a marketplace app for this, our team at OBSS built Timepiece - Time in Status for Jira for this exact need. It is available for Jira Server, Cloud, and Data Center.  

Time in Status mainly allows you to see how much time each issue spent on each status and on each assignee. 

       

The app has Consolidated Columns feature. This feature allows you to combine the duration for multiple statuses into a single column and exclude unwanted ones. It is the most flexible way to get any measurement you might want. Measurements like Issue Age, Cycle Time, Lead Time, Resolution Time etc.

For all numeric report types, you can calculate averages and sums of those durations grouped by the issue fields you select. For example total in-progress time per customer (organization) or average resolution time per sprint, week, month, issuetype, request type, etc. The ability to group by parts of dates (year, month, week, day, hour) or sprints is particularly useful here since it allows you to compare different time periods or see the trend.

The app calculates its reports using already existing Jira issue histories so when you install the app, you don't need to add anything to your issue workflows and you can get reports on your past issues as well. It supports both Company Managed and Team Managed projects.

Time in Status reports can be accessed through its own reporting page, dashboard gadgets, and issue view screen tabs. All these options can provide both calculated data tables and charts.

And the app has a REST API so you can get the reports from Jira UI or via REST.

  

Using Time in Status you can:

• See how much time each issue spent on each status, assignee, user group and also see dates of status transitions.
• Calculate averages and sums of those durations grouped by issue fields you select. (For example, see average InProgress time per project and per issue type.)
• Export your data as XLS, XLSX, or CSV.
• Access data via REST API. (for integrations)
• Visualize data with various chart types.
• See Time in Status reports on Jira Dashboard gadgets

Timepiece - Time in Status for Jira

EmreT

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

You can display a "series of dots" on each card which shows one dot per day since the card entered that column. It is a feature of Kanban boards, I think.

[Mister Femi]

Thanks, @Aron Gombas . I have tried that. However, the dots tend to cumulate days on the board not in the column. Although it’s a scrum board, that feature is enabled. 
Cheers

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

Are you sure?

The user doc says:

When you enable days in column, the number of the days that an issue has been in a COLUMN are represented by a series of dots on the card itself.

[Mister Femi]

Yes, I am. Days in column is enabled under column management. That’s why I need a JQL filter.