Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard
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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 and select Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard.
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. |
scrum_user |
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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 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:
Analyze the burndown trends and accordingly plan the workload for an upcoming sprint. |
Sprint Burnup |
Line 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:
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You can customize the Burnup and Burndown reports. For more information, see Customizing Agile 2.0 dashboard reports.