Agility Metrics Report

The Agility Metrics is an automatically generated report that represents your team’s progress. 

Whether you’re familiar with Agile or not, this report will provide you and your team with a clear overview of current performance and highlight areas for improvement to enhance efficiency. It’s especially useful for teams that work on an iterative or monthly review cycle. 

Customizing the Agile Metrics Report 

The Agile Metrics report has different metrics you can add. Let’s explore each one, so you can customize the report to best fit your team’s needs and track the most relevant data to improve performance.  

Lead Time (Time to Complete) 

The graph visualizes the time it takes to complete work items at the 95th percentile, month by month. This helps monitor whether the team’s performance is improving or declining over time. 

At the top, you can see the data for the current month (March), highlighting the time to complete the 95th percentile of items — 46 days — along with the percentage change from the previous month, showing an 80% improvement. 

The bar chart below breaks down the data for the previous three months (December to March), making it easy to spot trends. Each bar represents the 95th percentile completion time for that month, meaning 95% of work items were completed within this timeframe. 

Additionally, the dotted blue line represents the running average over these months (233 days), giving further context to monthly fluctuations. 

This updated graph focuses solely on the 95th percentile, unlike the previous version that also covered the 70th and 80th percentiles. 

Cycle Time (Age in Progress) 

The graph shows the current cycle time (age in progress) for the 70th, 80th, and 95th percentiles of total work items. “Age in progress” represents the amount of time an item has spent in the “In Progress” stage — essentially, the time it’s been actively worked on but not yet completed. 

The percentiles indicate the percentage of items that took equal to or less than the specified amount of time. Let’s break it down: 

• 70th Percentile: 70% of items spent 528 days or less in progress. The remaining 30% took longer. This helps identify the average fastest time work items get done, offering insights into best practices for quicker completion. 

• 80th Percentile: 80% of items spent 675 days or less in progress. The remaining 20% took longer. This percentile is useful for gauging when the majority of work is expected to be completed, making it a solid checkpoint for project timelines. 

• 95th Percentile: 95% of items spent 828 days or less in progress. The remaining 5% took even longer. This is the safest metric for forecasting how long it might take to finish all currently planned tasks, as it covers nearly all work items. 

By analyzing these percentiles, you can make better predictions about completion times and spot opportunities to improve processes for items that linger longer in progress.

Items Completed on Time 

This graph shows the number of items your team has completed on time each month, along with the average performance. Fluctuations in the graph may indicate potential issues with either performance or estimation accuracy. 

New vs Completed Items 

This graph displays the total number of newly created tasks compared to the total number of completed tasks. It helps you determine when to add new items to the backlog and when to focus on completing the tasks already in progress. 

Total Progress

This section shows the workspace’s overall progress across three key criteria: the number of items, estimated hours, and budget. 

Actionable Items

Lastly, actionable items highlight which tasks should be prioritized to improve the previous metrics. These are divided into three sections: suspended items, overdue items, and items aging in progress. 

Learn more: Actionable Agile Metrics.