Kanban: improved Cycle time, WIP and Throughput reports
Hi all,
Cycle time along with WIP and Thouughput are key indicators in a Kanban implementation.
Filtering the CFD by a single stage it is possible to have a WIP history but there is no way (as long as i understood) to have mean values like that in the Average issue age.
Is the Cycle time that shown in the resolution time report? From the description on https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/standalone/Resolution-Time-Report.html it seems so, but I am not sure about it.
It seems that there is no way to have a direct reading of the Throughput at the moment, am I missing something?
Finally, since have correct forecasts we need to know the statistical distributions of those values it would be great to have a Cycle time and a Throughput scatter plot.
Any idea?
Thanks all,
Vittorio
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Hi!
I'm Sergey from the Youtrack team.
Thank you for the message. I'm happy to help you.
>Filtering the CFD by a single stage it is possible to have a WIP history but there is no way (as long as i understood) to have mean values like that in the Average issue age.
Yes, you understood it correctly. The cumulative flow diagram shows the tasks that were at a set stage at a specific time.
>Is the Cycle time that shown in the resolution time report? From the description on https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/standalone/Resolution-Time-Report.html it seems so, but I am not sure about it.
That's not exactly the Cycle time report, yet it can be helpful if examining the data when issues get resolved is useful for your case.
I can also suggest taking a look at the State transition report. Furthermore, we have a feature request to improve it: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JT-33259 Please feel free to vote for it, as it increases its priority. To do so, sign in to Jetbrains Youtrack: https://take.ms/cw5CL Also, feel free to leave a comment regarding the features you'd like to see there.
>It seems that there is no way to have a direct reading of the Throughput at the moment, am I missing something?
We had a feature request to add this report, though we closed it a couple of years back as it didn't get any attention from our customers.
P.S. if you'd like to get in touch with our support team directly for a quick answer to your question, please fill in a direct request at https://youtrack-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/requests/new We'll be happy to help.
Hi Sergey
thanks for your reply.
I am looking for a report that shows the moving average WIP count (by stage or globally) in order to better analyse the WIP trends, smothing out local variations. This is not achievable with a CFD.
Also, to have correct forecasts we need to know the statistical distributions. It would be great to have a Cycle time scatter plot.
Thank you
Vittorio
Thanks for your reply.
I'm afraid, I can't offer any solutions to build such reports at the moment. All the available reports are listed and described in our documentation.
Hi Sergey,
do you plan to add the Cycle time scatter plot in the future? It is a great value tool for Kanban teams...
Vittorio
So far there are no such plans. Generally, if you are interested, you can check our article about how we handle external requests, including the feature ones: https://youtrack-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001019644-How-We-Handle-External-Requests-in-YouTrack
Currently, the closest report that we consider improving is the State Transition report as I mentioned in the initial reply: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JT-33259 If that's something that can help you, you are free to post comments describing how you'd like it to work and vote for the feature.
OK thank you very much.
Vittorio