Looking for some information on Scrum reporting

[Jim Stewart]

I've been asked if Jira has any reports that might report on any of these three areas. Note that the organization I'm working in tends to do one sprint/one release and each sprint has multiple projects in it. Sounds confusing but it seems to work for them. Seeking Scrum reports in:

• Assisting the estimating and planning processes
• Assessing team effectiveness
• Assessing team productivity (consistency, reliability, rather than throughput)

[Scott Theus · Accepted solution]

Hi Jim,

I assume you are looking for more robust or team-specific reports than what Jira has available in the "Reports" section of the project. They do some decent reporting on Burn-up/down, Versions, Created vs. Resolved, etc, but if you want more efficiency based reports you may want to check out the dashboard gadgets. 

Specifically, I think the "Average Number of Times in Status" and "Average Time in Status" filtered for the Scrum team will show you how effective they are at planning sprints and completing the work committed to in the sprint. A dashboard with "Time to First Response," Time Since" and "Resolution Time" could be set up and filtered for the team to gauge their efficiency at resolving issues, and you could use a "Two Dimensional Filter Stats" gadget to show a count of bugs and development stories for the version or sprint to gauge quality.

I hope that helps get you started, I'm fairly new to Jira myself but the community is very helpful, so if there are better ways I'm sure someone else will chime in.

-Scott

[Jim Stewart]

Thanks. That confirms my thinking that these don't seem to exist in that default list of reports. I'm looking in the dashboard but I don't see any gadgets nor do I seem to have the ability to add any. I'll have to see if the powers-that-be want these reports badly enough for us to tinker with this. I don't see either of those gadgets you mentioned in my list of pre-installed gadgets so I wonder if I'd have to go look for those.

[Scott Theus]

Happy to help. There is a hyperlink in the initial list of gadgets to "Load All Gadgets, " if you haven't done so already take a look under there. (I didn't see it at first, someone pointed it out to me.)

If you are on the System Dashboard you probably can't add gadgets. Check to see if you can create a new one by clicking the ellipses in the top right and selecting "Create Dashboard." That's something else I had to discover on my own when I first started with Jira. 

-Scott