Find a board's bottleneck with its flow reports

Four Boards reports: time in each column, created vs resolved, scope change in a cycle, and the cycle time scatter.

In short

Four reports read the history a board already keeps. "Time in each column" finds the column where work waits longest - the bottleneck. "Created vs resolved" shows whether the board keeps up. "Scope change in a cycle" shows what was added or removed after a cycle started. "Cycle time scatter" draws every finished card as a dot.

Before you start

• Who: you need "See analytics" in an organization, and the board must be open to you.
• Plan: Boards and Analytics, which every plan includes.
• First: pick a board and a period. Analytics offers only boards you can open.

Steps

1. Open Analytics › Reports and find the "Boards" category.
2. Choose a report, such as "Time in each column".
3. Choose the "Board" and the period. Narrow by "Assignee" or "Column" if you like.
4. Read the numbers, which show at once, and press "Save report" to keep them. Press a point of a chart to see the cards behind it.

Result: for example "Most time spent in Review (card-days)", with a table of the longest stays.

What each report tells

Good to know

• A card-day is each day a card spent in the column during the period, counted once.
• A board has no sprints of its own, so the cycle is the period you choose; it starts on its first day.
• "Resolved" means finished, as the board's flow counts it.
• Time figures show one person's cards only to that person: choose "My cards", Unassigned or everyone.
• The scatter draws the latest 500 finished cards. Example cards never count.
• Save a report's choices as a view, or schedule it by email. See /help/analytics/saved-views-and-drill-down.
• What happens next: nothing is sent. "Save report" keeps the numbers, and a saved view or a schedule keeps your choices (see /help/analytics/saved-views-and-drill-down).

If something goes wrong

• "Time figures for one person are shown only to that person. Choose your own cards, Unassigned, or everyone."
• "No column held work in the period" - no card stayed in a counted column; choose a longer period.

Related

• /help/boards/board-pulse
• /help/boards/board-flow
• /help/analytics/running-a-report
• /help/analytics/saved-views-and-drill-down