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Sprint Cumulative Flow


Report Description

This report shows a cumulative view of the Sprint Backlog over time by state. Useful information shown by this chart:

  • A view of how the total work to deliver a Sprint is changing over time
  • The rate at which the team are completing the Sprint Backlog
  • The amount of work In Progress at any time

It is quite common for teams to start many pieces of work and leave them "90% complete" in an un-testable state, rather than rapidly cycling work from In Progress through Ready For Test and finally to Done. This chart will surface this issue by showing a wide swath of In Progress and Ready For Test tasks open at a single point in time.

Another common issue illustrated by this chart is a long delay between the team starting working on tasks and getting them ready to be tested. If there aren't a significant number of tasks Ready For Test early in a S


Report Parameters

Parameter Description Default
Sprint View the Sprint Cumulative Flow chart for a specific Sprint by selecting a specific Sprint name The current in progress Sprint
Team A multi-select dropdown providing the ability to filter the backlog data by a specific team or subset of teams Shows Sprint task data for all teams, including items assigned to specific teams and those that are unassigned
Weekends Selects whether weekends are included as valid working time or excluded from work time Excluded


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