Team Measurements

Track how your team is doing with its projects. Team measurement reports include:

• Cycle Time chart
• Throughput chart
• My Availability chart

Cycle Time chart

The Cycle Time chart (also known as the Lead Time chart) helps you use past history to estimate how long it might take for work to pass through various Rally schedule states to acceptance.

Access this chart from the Reports tab.

This chart shows the average number of days it takes work to flow through your process to acceptance for each week, and a metrics summary (in days) over the past 13 weeks.

You may use this chart to detect trends and consider questions like:

• How long does it take, on average, for a work item to pass from an idea to completion?
• Once completed, how long does it take to accept a work item?
• What is the nature of outliers?
• How many stories or defects of similar size should we be able to accept in a given time period?

Throughput chart

The Throughput chart helps you use past history to predict how much work your teams may accept in a similar time period.

Access this chart from the Reports tab.

The chart shows the number work items that your teams in scope have accepted for a given time period (weeks, months, quarters) and a metrics summary (number of work items) over the report period.

The chart helps you detect trends and consider questions like:

• How many work items of similar size should we be able to accept in a similar future time period?
• What factors might affect throughput?

My Availability chart

The My Availability chart reflects your personal capacity levels across all projects for the current iteration within the workspace. This chart displays all current iterations for all projects in which you have tasks assigned or are a team member. Use this chart to track your available individual resources, view your cumulative task estimate assignments and view or set your individual capacity per project for the current iteration. This information enables you to predict your ability to meet your commitments for the current iteration.

Click any column to navigate to a description.

The My Availability chart displays:

• A list of all projects contained within the current iteration.

  Each project name is in hyperlink form providing navigation to the project detail. Click the project header to sort the list alphabetically in ascending or descending order.

• The current iteration name for each listed project in hyperlink form allowing navigation to the Iteration Detail page.

Click the column heading to sort your display by iteration name.

• A color-coded individual load box that displays an at-a-glance indication of the percentage of stated individual capacity taken up by tasks assigned to you.

  Green indicates your individual load is within an acceptable range, while red indicates your individual load exceeds your capacity. Your individual load percentages are rolled up for all projects and reflected at the top of the column.

• Your capacity for each project.

  This information reflects your availability per project for the current iteration and is rolled up for a total workspace wide calculation and displayed at the top of the column. You can set or adjust your capacity at any time by clicking the edit icon.

• Task estimates for all tasks per project within the current Iteration that have been assigned to you.

These figures are rolled up for a total workspace wide calculation and displayed at the top of the column. The label icon on the column header contains the first letter of your defined unit of measure configured for the workspace under the Units tab. Hover your mouse over this icon to read the full label of your task unit measurement.

If a project has no current Iterations defined, My Availability chart displays with a message stating " There are no current Iterations "on the project line.