Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard

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  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard

    The Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard in ServiceNow provides comprehensive data visualization and analytics on previous sprints. It enables Scrum Masters and sprint planners to assess scope changes, actual burndown and burnup trends, and forecast future sprint outcomes. This dashboard helps teams analyze past sprint performance to make informed decisions when planning upcoming sprints.

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    Access the dashboard via All > Agile Development > Dashboards and select Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard. It excludes canceled stories from all data calculations.

    Key Features

    • Indicators:
      • Scope series: Total story points planned in the sprint.
      • Completed series: Sum of story points for active stories completed in the sprint.
    • Breakdowns: Data segmented by current sprint and prior sprint.
    • Widgets:
      • Committed Points: The total story points committed for the sprint.
      • Stories Completed: Number of stories completed in the previous sprint.
      • Completed: Story points completed in the previous sprint.
      • Missing Estimates: Number of stories missing estimates in the previous sprint.
    • Data Visualizations:
      • Sprint Burndown Chart: Displays scope changes, ideal work pace, remaining work, and actual progress. It helps identify if the team is ahead or behind schedule based on comparison of remaining work versus ideal burndown.
      • Sprint Burnup Chart: Shows completed work and scope changes over the sprint, allowing analysis of work completion trends.
    • Customization: Both Sprint Burndown and Burnup reports can be customized to suit reporting preferences.
    • Upgrade Note: Customers upgrading from prior versions (1.0.2 or earlier) should reinstall the dashboard from the Solution Library to access updated layouts and the Sprint Burnup visualization.

    Key Outcomes

    • Gain visibility into actual scope changes and team progress during prior sprints.
    • Analyze burndown and burnup trends to understand team velocity and forecast future sprint outcomes.
    • Identify incomplete work, missing estimates, and scope creep to improve sprint planning accuracy.
    • Use data-driven insights to optimize workload allocation and sprint commitments.

    Prior Sprint Dashboard provides data visualization on scope, actual burndown and burnup, and forecast trends of previous sprints. Analyze the data and plan the work for upcoming sprints.

    Navigate to All > Agile Development > Dashboards and select Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard.

    Figure 1. Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard widgets
    Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard widgets.
    Figure 2. Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard burndown visualization
    Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard burndown report.
    Figure 3. Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard burnup visualization
    Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard burnup report.
    Note:
    Canceled stories are not included in any of this data.

    End user and roles

    End user and goal Required role Benefits

    Scrum master and sprint planner: Need visibility into actual changes in scope and forecast trends of the previous sprints.

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    • Analyze sprint burndown and burnup trends
    • Use the data to plan for upcoming sprints

    Indicators

    The following are the indicators which are used to generate the data for the reports of this dashboard.

    Scrum: Sum of story points of all stories in the current sprint

    Generates the scope series in the Sprint Burndown and Sprint Burnup reports.

    Scrum: Sum of story points of active stories in the current sprint

    Generates the completed series in the Sprint Burndown and Sprint Burnup reports.

    Breakdowns

    The following are the breakdowns used by the indicators.

    • Scrum: Sprint
    • Scrum: Prior Sprint

    Widgets

    Committed points

    Indicates the committed scope (in number of story points) of the sprint.

    Stories Completed

    Indicates the total number of stories that were completed in the previous sprint.

    Completed

    Indicates the amount of work (in story points) that was completed in the previous sprint.

    Missing Estimates

    Indicates the total number of stories in the previous sprint that were missing estimates.

    Data visualizations

    If you are upgrading from version 1.0.2 or earlier of Performance Analytics Content Pack for Agile 2.0, then install this dashboard from Solution Library to upgrade its layout and access the Sprint Burnup visualization. For more information, see Upgrading the layout of Agile 2.0 dashboards.

    Title Type Description

    Sprint Burndown

    Line chartLine chart

    Indicates the scope changes, if any, and trends of those scope changes. Indicates the ideal pace of work, how much work is remaining, and if the scope is likely to be completed before the end of the sprint.

    The Sprint Burndown report comprises the following series that can be hidden or displayed based on your preference:
    • Scope: Indicates the amount of work that is planned for the sprint.
    • Ideal Burndown: Indicates how the team needs to progress on stories to complete the sprint on time.
    • Remaining: Indicates the amount of work left for completion in the sprint.

      If Remaining is above the Ideal Burndown, it implies that there is more work left than originally estimated. The team is running behind the schedule of the sprint.

      If Remaining is below Ideal Burndown, it implies that there is less work left than originally estimated. The team is running ahead of the schedule of the sprint.

    Analyze the burndown trends and accordingly plan the workload for an upcoming sprint.

    Sprint Burnup

    Line chartLine chart

    Shows the previous sprint burnup trend indicating scope changes. Analyze future changes the trend of team's work completion.

    The Sprint Burnup report comprises the following series that can be hidden or displayed based on your preference:
    • Scope: Indicates the amount of work that is planned for the sprint.
    • Completed: Indicates the amount of work completed in the sprint.

    You can customize the Burnup and Burndown reports. For more information, see Customizing Agile 2.0 dashboard reports.