Velocity charts

Owned by Olexiy Artemenko
Last updated: Jul 24, 2024 by Tetiana Kamenkova
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We built and have been developing the app to solve the limitations of existing reporting solutions, including the built-in reporting in Jira. We like to say that we eat our own dog food because we experienced those limitations by ourselves in our day-to-day software delivery practice.

Jira Built-in Velocity Chart

Velocity Chart report is part of your Jira’s standard reporting. This report is automatically created for each Scrum Board, which means it’s tightly connected with a particular Scrum Board and can’t be added as a gadget to the Jira Dashboard.

The report provides velocity statistics for the last 7 sprints. The number of sprints shown on the chart cannot be changed.

The report provides two metrics:

  • Commitment - the sum of story points (or any other estimation field chosen in Board settings) that had been planned before Sprint started.

  • Completed - the sum of story points of Jira issues completed during a sprint.

Jira velocity chart

Major benefits of Agile Reports and Gadgets' Velocity charts

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  1. Build velocity charts for individual, team, and cross-team levels.

  2. Select your Scrum, Kanban boards, or a mix of them as a data source.

  3. Know how a team (or team of teams) progresses towards a delivery goal - filter by release, epic, or custom JQL.

  4. Get more information with additional metrics and tools:

    1. Rollover

    2. Final commitment

    3. Total Scope change

    4. Added work

    5. Removed work

    6. Estimation changed

    7. Not completed work

    8. Completed work (Initial)

    9. Average and Moving average lines

    10. Target lines: static and moving

  5. Create insightful reports and share them with your colleagues.

  6. Share charts as gadgets using Jira dashboards and Confluence pages.

Minor (but still important) benefits

  • Choose how many sprints or time intervals you want to see on a chart.

  • Choose whether to show active and future sprints.

  • Choose whether to include sub-tasks.

  • See velocity data over bigger time intervals, like months or quarters.

  • Export your data to CSV, PNG, or PDF.