Dependencies report
- Anna Ciepłota
- Piotr Koszela
This report type is available with BigPicture Enterprise only.
The Dependencies report gives you a quick overview of existing dependencies in your projects.
The Dependencies report is in the form of a matrix and presents the names of projects or iterations that:
are assigned to a given program or project
have at least one incoming or outgoing dependency (note - both dependency tasks must be open).
The intersection of the matrix's rows and columns shows the number of dependencies between projects and their iterations from lower levels (PI Iterations, Sprints, etc.).
With more dependencies, the color changes from green to yellow to red.
If there are no dependencies between projects/iterations, the report will present "No data."
Contrary to the Cross-team dependencies report:
This report does not display parent-child dependencies.
The report also displays dependencies inside a project or iteration (in the fields on the matrix diagonal).
When you click the report field,
you will see detailed information about each dependency (divided into projects or iterations between which they occur).
The report presents soft dependencies (marked as S) or strong dependencies (marked as SE, EE, ES, SS).
The digits between iterations indicate the number of dependencies.
Status is abbreviated:
Report configuration
Name
You can rename your report using the report configuration.
Hide/show the same Box dependencies
The cross-team dependencies report can show dependencies on the diagonal (only Soft/Hard links; it does not show Child-Parent relationships within the same team).
This functionality is turned off by default. It can be turned on / off in the report configuration panel (the "Hide dependencies for the same team" checkbox is selected by default).
Diagonal cells on the matrix won't contain any information (the information is hidden).
Otherwise, those cells contain information on dependencies within a single Box.
Multi-level Box structure
When you create a report in the main program Box, the matrix is based on Program Increments (direct lower level). Under Program Increments, Iterations are nested.
When you don't hide the dependencies:
You can see all dependencies within a Program Increment, including the Iterations it contains.
Export
BigTemplate addon is required.
You can export information of a given cell into .xlsx.
The file is a flat list (items areng grouped per Box). The following information on both the source and target tasks of a dependency:
Box name
task key
task status
summary
dependency type
