Control Charts

Control charts show progress state changes to issues on a timeline.

Control charts are available in Scrum boards and Kanban boards for both Sprint reports and Issues reports. A Control chart is a scatter chart with each point representing an event where a progress state changed on the timeline. This event occurs when an issue moves from one progress state to another.

Here's how to create a Control chart

  1. Open the board.

  2. Click Reports.

  3. If you are using a Scrum board, click Sprint Sprint. If you are using a Kanban board, click Issues Issues.

  4. Click the Control Chart tab.

The Y-axis of the chart shows how many days an issue spent in its previous progress state (the progress state from which the issue was moved). For example, if an issue's status was changed on Jan 10 from To Do to In Progress, the chart displays a point on Jan 10 and the Y-axis shows the number of days the issue was in the To Do progress state.

The colors for the progress states are randomly assigned. You can show or hide the progress state points by clicking on the names of the progress states in the chart legend. Click the chart legend to display a line on the chart that shows the average number of days spent in a progress state.

The events table has a column for each progress state in the board, with values representing the number of days spent in the progress state at the time of each event. The table displays the average number of days a little differently than the chart does.