Report: Trending Progress
Trending Progress answers how has the shape of this work changed over time? Where Current Progress is one snapshot, this report draws one stacked bar per day, week, or month so you can see completion climbing, estimates filling in, or work piling up in a status.
Open and scope it
- Open Measure Performance and pick Trending Progress under Agile.
- Set Range, For, Show, and Filters as on any report (see Report Customization Options).
- Choose what to trend with the Of selector in the toolbar.
The Of selector
| Of | Bars show, per period | Kind of number |
|---|---|---|
| Completed Items (default) | Items in a done status versus Not Completed at the end of the period | Running total |
| Time Estimated | Items (or hours) that gained or changed a time estimate in the period | Activity in the period |
| Points Estimated | Items (or points) that gained or changed a point estimate | Activity in the period |
| Assigned Items | Items assigned versus unassigned in the period | Activity in the period |
| Planned Items | Items added to a board versus removed from one in the period | Activity in the period |
| Items by Status | How many items sat in each status at the end of the period, one colour per status | Running total |
Time Estimated and Points Estimated appear only when an item type has that kind of estimate enabled, and some Show measures are unavailable while they are selected.
The two "running total" options include history from before your range, so the first bar is the true state at that date, not zero. The others count what happened inside each period only.
How to read it
- With Completed Items, the bar height is the total scope in the filter and the green share is what is done. A bar that grows while the green share stays flat means scope is arriving faster than it is finished.
- With Items by Status, watch one colour band across periods. A band that keeps widening is a status where work waits; this is the same signal as Cumulative Flow, which shows it as bands.
- With Planned Items, a period with large added and removed numbers shows plans being reshuffled rather than executed; compare with Churn by cycle.
Example. Over a quarter at weekly granularity, Completed Items shows the green share rising from 20% to 70% while the bar height stays constant. Scope was stable and delivery steady: a healthy run. If the bar height had grown 30% in the last three weeks, the same 70% would hide late scope growth, and the burn-down forecast would have moved.
The time axis
The chart draws nothing into the future: its axis runs from the start of your range to the current period, which is drawn as a partial period holding today's snapshot. Selecting This month on the 2nd shows two days, not thirty columns with two filled. Weeks run Monday to Sunday. A range entirely in the future plots nothing.
Items and Transactions tabs
The Items tab groups items by period, split into the same groups as the bars (for example Completed and Not Completed, or one group per status), with a count in each header. The Transactions tab lists the status changes themselves.
Pitfalls
- Filters use current item state. For the running-total options, an item that moved teams last week is counted under its current team for every past period.
- Estimates are weights. With Show set to an estimate or time spent, each item's current value is applied to its whole history, so re-estimating today changes past bars. See the note in Report Customization Options.
- Completed Items counts statuses of type Done. Work parked in a custom "Released" status that is not of type Done still reads as Not Completed.
Report: Current Progress
Read the Current Progress donuts (completed, assigned, planned, estimated), drill into the items behind each one, and control how the Planned donut treats finished work.
Report: Cycle Time
Measure how long items take to move from one status to another, read the scatter plot and trailing average, and understand exactly which status changes are timed.