Jira progression gadget enables Jira Dashboards to display epics' progress. This plugin is designed to satisfy the following needs:
- Key project management information should be co-located.
- Progress should be available to a quick glance.
- Managerial data should always be up-to-date.
- Proper tools should be free.
Install the Beta version to your Jira instance using this link.
Next, open your Jira instance and naviate to Dashboards. You should now find
Epic progression in the list of gadgets.
Jira users requested a progression gadget as early as 2013. Many real-world scenarios have been described over the years. We've paraphrased some of them below.
At my company we've organized a couple of Jira Dashboards that show the overall status of our roadmap/portfolio. We display these on screens in the office, and managers and developers are responding really well to them. A quick glance in the morning or when you go grab a coffee tells you e.g., that the bugs are under control or about potential bottle necks.
The problem is, we can't show how much of a feature (epic) is done. The best we
can do is creating one of those big Epic Burndown charts for each of a dozen
epics or more. That doesn't meet our needs at all. We want a summary - an
overview. That takes up very little screen space and comes without any clutter.
I'm a product owner who splits her time between a couple of different products. So I'm meeting with lots of stakeholders who are interested in our progress in different areas. It's a lot to keep track of and they get frustrated if all I can tell them is that we're still working on the same epics as last time we talked. And the time before last time. And the time before that...
What I'm doing right now is exporting a lot of our Jira data to excel and try to whip together the information that's important to each stakeholder. The problem is, this takes too much time. Time that I really should be spending on my teams. Honestly, I'm already working more hours than I should just to keep things running.
My management teams always wants to know how many stories in an epic are complete and, I agree, that provides value. When we realize that an epic is in trouble we can start early with managing expectations, like negotiating scope or help our customers plan for a later date. The management team makes better decisions the more data they have. The more accurate and up-to-date data.
The problem is, you have to click around through agile boards and whatnot to get that data. And then they don't think it's worth their time. Or mine. So we end up making worse decisions. So one dashboard that has all the information is really important. One dashboard - one click - that they can look at whenever they need to.
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