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Prerequisites
Once you add the gadget to your dashboard and configure it, you can get the following information:
- Business value that an Agile Release Train (ART) committed to deliver for each Program Increment (PI)
- Delivered business value for each PI objectives
- Delivery rate against for the each PI objectives
- 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 delivered only around 25% for the for 2018 Q2 PI objectives. Starting 2018 Q3 it looks like the lessons were learnt, and the team's delivery rate became much better. This shows a positive tendency not only in the team's better commitments but possibly also in better planning.
Selecting data to display on the chart
You can customize your report view by showing and hiding the data depending on your current focus. Click 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.
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.
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.
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 hiddenthere 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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| Warning | In 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 included | Agile 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 |
| 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 deliveredthis 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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The PIs tab contains details on the projects program increments that are included in the report. . Here you can see the delivery rate dynamics across your PI objectives.
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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For the children of the Feature that are tagged to a different PI
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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.
Other tips and tricks
- 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.