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Prerequisites

Ensure that you are good on the following prerequisites:

Reading the chart

Your Program Predictability Measure Gadget displays Once you add the gadget to your dashboard and configure it, you can get the following information:

  • Commitment for each release measured in Business Values
  • Actual work delivered measured in the same metrics
  • % of the total BV delivered for a certain PI - line on the chart indicating percentage of the total BV delivered for a certain PI. This line helps you identify the accuracy of how your team is providing estimations. The more the percentage, it means that the team is getting better and more precise in measuring the assigned tasks, thus you are on the right trackBusiness value that an Agile Release Train (ART) committed to deliver for each Program Increment (PI)
  • Delivered business value for each PI
  • Delivery rate for each PI
  • Insights and warnings on the possible wrong configuration to ensure all data is captured and is accurate.

Reading the chart

The following example shows that the team had only 10% estimation accuracy for 2018 Q1delivered only around 25% for the for 2018 Q2 PI objectives. Starting 2018 Q2 Q3 it looks like the lessons were learnt, and the team's estimates (commitments) become much more accurate - around 50% and moredelivery rate became much better. This shows positive tendency and shows that the team matured and is showing great results in estimate (commitments) accuracy.Image Removeda positive tendency not only in the team's better commitments but possibly also in better planning.

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Selecting data to display on the chart

The interface enables you to You can customize your report view by showing and hiding the data depending on your current focus. For instance, if you are focused on estimates (commitments) accuracy, you can hide the Lower point (static green area) on the chart by clicking the name in the chart legend as shown belowClick the elements in the chart legend to hide the respective information on the chart. To display hidden data again, click its name in the legend againlegend.

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Tooltips

For you to have an instant insight into what the certain parts of the chart mean and how much work was delivered at a certain point in time, hover over a place a quick look at the committed and delivered business value for each particular PI, hover over that point on the chart.
The tooltip will show the details for the selected point on the report.

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Zoom feature

If you have too many PIs displayed on the report, it might get difficult to read data (see screenshot), so you can zoom in to see only a few sprints of interest. To zoom in, hover over the chart area and use the mouse wheel or your track pad. Also, you can pan over the chart by clicking and dragging on a section of the chart. To zoom out, you can use your mouse wheel or click the Refresh button.

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Exporting report data

You can export the statistics and the program details data into the XLS file by clicking the Export button.

Program Predictability Measure details in tabs

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There are the following tabs with the report insights:

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Summary tab

Here you can view information about committed and delivered work measured in the selected metrics, percentage of delivered Business ValuesValue, and warnings in case the actual progress is behind the plan. Note: In case source data is not available the panel is hidden.

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there is a chance that some data is missing or improperly configured.

This statistics can help you plan future releases. For example you can use Total BV committed and Total BV delivered as the value for the ideal team velocity and plan releases taking this into account.

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StatsDescription
WarningIn case the ART's progress is below the acceptable norm you gat an instant indication of that not only in the chart but also in the tabs.
Projects includedAgile Release Train can combine several projects, and this is convenient to see how many projects are included in your ART.
Total BV committed 
Sum of all planned BV

Total planned Business Value for all

PIs in

data on the report.

The


This is also equal to a sum of all planned BV in the PIs tab

is equal to the Total BV committed in the Summary tab

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 This means that a feature can be calculated several times in the Total BV committed.

 

Total BV delivered 
Sum of all BV

Total delivered Business Value for all

PIs within the period for the reporting. If the

data on the report.

If a certain feature was planned in several PIs but got delivered in the last one, only this

one

last PI will

be

count the BV for

the PI where it was delivered

this feature.

Note that the tickets must be marked as done to be counted in the report.

Lower point

Point where a delivered Business Value percentage

should be

is still considered to be

still

within the norm. The default is 80%.

This setting defines the static area on the chart in green color.
% of BV delivered

Total BV delivered / total BV committed

for the period of the report.

Total features
Sum
Amount of
all features
tickets examined for the report, even not delivered ones.

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PIs tab

The PIs tab contains details on the projects program increments that are included in the report. The PIs are clickable to make the navigation faster for you.Image RemovedHere you can see the delivery rate dynamics across your PI objectives.

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Warnings tab

Warnings are generated to help you identify cases when chart's data might show not the actual picture or when there are issues in how your tickets are configured.

For instance, when Feature you will get warnings for the following cases:

  • Feature wasn't marked as

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  • Done thus this is a question whether someone forgot to move the ticket to the correct status or maybe this is expected because it was planned but never delivered.
  • Features that don't have

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  • Business Value indicated (BV field is empty)

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  • Any of the children of the Feature are tagged to a different PI.

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Note

For the children of the Feature  that are tagged to a different PI

  • When a chart is built and shown, check the tickets tied to this feature / capability / portfolio epic. If at least one of these tickets is linked to a PI (fixVersion) that is different from the Pi that a feature / capability / portfolio epic is linked to, this will be displayed in a warning. 
  • If the Feature is committed in a PI, all child stories should also be completed in the PI. The feature should not be marked complete/done until all children are done, and if some children are not done until a later PI, then that Feature should only be credited as "complete" in the later PI. 

Exporting report data

You can export the statistics and the program details data into the XLS file by clicking the Export button.

Other tips and tricks

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  • And so on.

For you to have a meaningful data on the Gadget, check on the following items:

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the report, we recommend that you check the Warnings tab from time to time and triage

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tickets from there. The

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tickets shown in the Warnings tab are not included into the chart calculations, and thus in order to see the accurate picture on the chart, you might want to triage those

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tickets first.

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See also

PPM - Configuring Program Predictability Measure report

Metrics in SAFe