WIP Aging Chart Gadget
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Overview
Depending on how you configure it, this gadget displays the "work-in-progress" (WIP) issues from a filter or an agile board in a scatter plot chart by their time (age) in their status or board column. Optionally, the chart can display percentiles or the average line. Also, a custom threshold line can be added for easily identifying the issues that have an age (time in status or time in column) higher than expected.
You can use this gadget to easily identify the issues that stay longer than expected in a specific workflow status or board column. Hovering the mouse pointer over an issue in the chart will display a tooltip with the issue details, like the issue summary or age. If configured to display the columns of an agile board, the gadget also displays the WIP limits of the boards and highlights them accordingly when these limits are exceeded.
The age calculation method is configurable. The gadget can display a Data tab with more details about every issue displayed in the chart.
See the settings description below for how to configure the gadget.
Configuration
The settings of this gadget are divided in 3 tabs:
Data tab - contains the required settings of the gadget, such as title or data source
More Settings tab - contains the optional settings, such as card colors
Colors tab
Data tab
On this tab you can configure the required settings of the gadget.
Setting | Description |
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Gadget Title | Choose what to display in the title bar of the gadget. |
Data Source | Select the type of Data Source used by the gadget:
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Display chart by | It indicates what the chart displays on its horizontal axis and how the issues are grouped in the chart. |
Age calculation method | Specify how the age is calculated by choosing one of these options: |
More Settings tab
On this tab you can configure the optional settings of the gadget.
Setting | Description |
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Calculate age in | Specify in what time unit measure the age of the issues will be displayed. |
Don't count weekends | Check this option if you want to exclude the weekends (Saturdays and Sundays) from the age calculation. |
Display average line | Check this option if you want the chart to display a line with the average age for all the issues displayed in the chart. |
Display threshold line | Check this option if you want the chart to display a line representing a threshold. The issues that have an age higher than the specified Threshold value will be colored in red. |
Display percentile lines | Check this option and enter the values (percents) corresponding to the percentiles to be displayed. A percentile is a value from the data set that splits the data into two pieces: the lower piece contains the percent of the data, and the upper piece contains the rest of the data. For example, the 75% percentile will be displayed as a horizontal line with 75% of the issues under it and the rest of the issues (25%) over it. |
Use logarithmic scale for the vertical axis | Check this option if you want the chart to display a logarithmic scale instead of a linear scale for the Y axis. |
Show legend | Check this option if you want the chart legend to be displayed. |
Show data table | Check this option if you want a data table to be displayed along with the chart. The Data tab displays the issues grouped by status or board column along with their time spent (age) in their current status or board column for all their occurrences in that status or column. |
Colors tab
Setting | Description |
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Automatically assign colors | Check this if you want the chart to automatically assign colors for the series. |
Custom colors | Select any custom color you want the series to be displayed on by either entering the color's hexadecimal code or picking a color. You can also use the Copy and Import buttons to copy and import the color configuration to gadgets of the same type. |
Related blog articles
The following blog articles provide more information on how to use this gadget.