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 visual insights into the scope, actual burndown, burnup, and forecast trends of previous sprints. It enables Scrum Masters and sprint planners to analyze past sprint performance data to better plan and manage upcoming sprints. This dashboard excludes canceled stories from its metrics to ensure accurate reporting.
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Access this dashboard via All > Agile Development > Dashboards and select Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard.
Key Features
- Committed Points Widget: Displays the total story points committed at the start of the sprint.
- Stories Completed Widget: Shows the number of stories completed in the previous sprint.
- Completed Widget: Indicates the total story points of work completed in the previous sprint.
- Missing Estimates Widget: Highlights the count of stories without estimates in the prior sprint, helping identify estimation gaps.
- Sprint Burndown Report: A line chart showing scope changes and burndown trends, including series for scope, ideal burndown pace, and remaining work. It helps assess if the team was ahead or behind schedule in the previous sprint.
- Sprint Burnup Report: A line chart illustrating completed work and scope trends, useful for understanding scope changes and team progress over the sprint.
Indicators and Data Breakdown
The dashboard uses story points from the Scrum methodology to generate its reports:
- Scope Series: Sum of all story points in the sprint, representing the planned work.
- Completed Series: Sum of active story points completed within the sprint.
- Reports are broken down by current and prior sprints to provide historical context.
Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Gain clear visibility into scope changes and actual sprint progress to improve sprint planning accuracy.
- Identify trends in work completion and scope adjustments to anticipate challenges and adjust workflows.
- Leverage customizable burndown and burnup reports to tailor insights to team preferences and reporting needs.
- Upgrade path available for customers using earlier versions to access enhanced visualizations and layout improvements.
Practical Application
By regularly reviewing the Agile 2.0 Prior Sprint Dashboard, Scrum Masters and sprint planners can make data-driven decisions to optimize sprint commitments, manage scope creep, and improve delivery predictability in future sprints. The dashboard's visualizations and indicators enable proactive adjustments to workload and resource allocation based on prior sprint outcomes.
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. 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
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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
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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.