Measure Performance: Reports

Reports Overview

Understand the Measure Performance module, its report types, filtering, drill-in, Excel export, and who can see it.

Measure Performance: Getting Started with Reports in DevStride

Unlock clarity and confidence with real-time portfolio insights in DevStride's Measure Performance Module

📊 What Is the Measure Performance Module?

The Measure Performance module in DevStride is your go-to hub for understanding how work is progressing across your entire portfolio — from teams and products to strategic initiatives. It turns all your work data into clear, actionable insights, without the need to dig through individual items or spreadsheets.

Whether you're a project manager, product owner, or executive, Measure Performance helps you answer:

  • Are we on track?
  • Where are the bottlenecks?
  • How fast are we delivering value?
  • What’s trending in the right (or wrong) direction?

🧭 What You’ll See

When you open Measure Performance, you’ll find a collection of powerful report types, each designed to give you a different lens on your work. Here’s what’s available:

Progress Reports

Current Progress – See how much work is done, in progress, or not started across any level.

Trending Progress – Track how your progress is changing over time.

Efficiency Reports

Cycle Time – How long work takes from start to finish.

Throughput – How much work is getting done in a given time period.

Cumulative Flow – Visualize work in each stage over time to detect bottlenecks.

Forecasting & Planning

Burn Down – See if you’re on track to complete work by a deadline.

Burn Up – Similar to burn down, but focused on value delivered.

Velocity – Understand your team's consistent delivery pace over cycles.

Health & Quality

Churn – Identify rework or churned items that may signal scope or quality issues.

Time Spent – Track how much time is being logged against work.


Each report includes interactive charts, filters, and underlying data you can drill into.

🛠️ What You Can Do in Measure Performance

1. Filter What Matters - with filter selections or AI prompts

Use powerful filters and/or AI prompts to slice the data by:

  • Agile level (Epics, Features, Stories, etc.)
  • Teams or individuals
  • Boards, cycles, or time frames
  • Tags, priorities, statuses, custom fields, and more

This allows you to zoom in on:

  • Just your team’s work
  • A specific initiative or customer project
  • Only unplanned or delayed work
  • Work tagged to strategic goals
  • You can mix and match filters to answer almost any question.

2. Choose How to Measure

Want to see report results in story points, estimated hours, actual time logged, or just item counts?

You can customize how data is aggregated:

  • Count of items
  • Estimated Time
  • Estimated Points
  • Actual Time

This flexibility makes reports useful for both strategic planning and day-to-day operations.

3. Drill Into the Details

Each chart isn’t just a pretty picture — you can click to see the actual items behind the data. Items are editable, making it even easier to act on reporting.

Need to know:

  • Which items are causing delays?
  • What work was completed in the last 2 weeks?
  • Which initiatives are behind?

You’ll get granular, interactive transaction records to support data-driven decisions.

4. Export Your Report to Excel

Need to work with your report data outside DevStride? Every report can be exported to Excel, so you can share it for leadership reviews, dig deeper in a spreadsheet, or archive a snapshot.

To export a report:

  1. Open any report and apply the filters, summarize-by option, and date range you want.
  2. Click Export in the report toolbar.
  3. In the Export Report to Excel dialog, give the export a name in the Export Name field (it defaults to Untitled).
  4. Click Export Report.

The export uses the filters and date range currently applied to the report, then runs in the background. When it finishes, you'll find it on the Exports tab of the Measure Performance view, where you can download the file.

The result is a single Excel workbook (.xlsx) that includes:

  • Export Info — a metadata sheet listing the report type, organization, the time the export ran, the date range and granularity, and the filters that were applied.
  • Chart / summary data — the figures behind the report's chart (for example, the Summary, Throughput, Churn, Velocity, or Cycle Metrics data, depending on the report).
  • Items — the itemized breakdown that mirrors the report's Items tab, grouped by date period.
  • Transactions — a full transaction history, where applicable to the report.

🔍 Common Use Cases by Role

RoleReport Use
Executives and Business LeadersHigh-level progress, throughput trends, and velocity across products or programs
Engagement ManagersProgress, throughput trends, and velocity by engagement
Product ManagersFeature burn down, cycle time, and rework tracking by initiative
Project ManagersForecasting timelines, surfacing at-risk work, validating planned vs. actual
Team LeadsSprint health, team velocity, bottleneck detection