Jira provides robust reporting and dashboard features that allow teams to gain insights into project progress, track key metrics, and visualize data in a meaningful way. Here’s an overview of reporting and dashboards in Jira:
Reports in Jira:
Jira offers a variety of pre-built reports that provide valuable information about project status, issue statistics, and team performance. These reports include:
Issue Statistics: Displays metrics such as the number of open issues, resolved issues, and average time to resolution.
Burndown Chart: Visualizes the progress of work in a sprint or project over time, helping teams track their completion rate and forecast project completion.
Velocity Chart: Shows the historical velocity of completed work in each sprint, allowing teams to gauge their capacity and plan future sprints.
Control Chart: Helps visualize the cycle time of issues, providing insights into how long it takes for issues to move through different stages of the workflow.
Created vs. Resolved Chart: Shows the number of issues created and resolved over a specific time period, helping track work efficiency and backlog management.
Customizing Reports:
Jira allows users to customize and create their own reports to meet specific requirements. Users can define their own report filters, choose relevant columns and fields, and save the report for future use. Custom reports can be shared with team members or exported in various formats like PDF or Excel.
Jira Dashboards:
Dashboards in Jira provide a centralized and customizable view of important project information and reports. A dashboard can include multiple gadgets, which are visual representations of data. Some commonly used gadgets include:
Filter Results: Displays a list of issues based on a Jira filter, allowing users to view specific sets of issues on the dashboard.
Pie Chart: Presents data in a pie chart format, providing a visual breakdown of issue statistics, such as issue types or priorities.
Agile Sprint Health Gadget: Shows the progress of a sprint, including the number of completed and remaining issues.
Activity Stream: Displays a stream of recent project activities, such as issue updates or comments.
Creating Dashboards:
Users can create their own dashboards in Jira or share dashboards created by others. Dashboards can be customized by adding, removing, or rearranging gadgets to suit individual preferences. Each user can have multiple dashboards, and dashboards can be made public or shared with specific groups or individuals.
Dashboard Permissions:
Jira allows users to manage dashboard permissions to control who can view and interact with the dashboards. Permissions can be set at the individual dashboard level or inherited from project permissions.