Ready for Development

Owned by Anastasia Baranouskaya
Last updated: Aug 26, 2022
2 min read

Purpose

Ready for Development shows an amount of scope ready for development (for future iterations or in backlog) vs Average team velocity.

How metric helps

Ready for Development helps to estimate how much work is already ready to go after the current iteration so that means a team has enough work to do.

How metric works 

Chart overview

Chart shows Ready for Development: amount of future iterations that are possible based on the number of ready requirements.

Chart can present a metric value in the following units of measure:

  • Story Points,

  • Items;

  • Person hours.

On hover over a column a hint appears with the following info:

  • Total amount of ready for development Story Points or Person hours or Work Items;

  • Average team velocity (last X iteration(s)): value of velocity <item>/<period>;

  • Work available for about X <period> ahead (where X is calculated value of Ready for Development metric).

Calculation 

Ready for Development = ∑Eready/Vavg

where

∑Eready - estimates sum for N ready for development tasks as of now (not aasigned on the incompleted iteration). Ready state is according to criteria in Project Configuration>Data Sources>Task Tracking System>Scope management>Definition of Ready.

Vavg - average velocity for the last N periods; N periods  - taken from Project Configuration>Data Sources>Task Tracking System>Scope management> Calculation depth for average team velocity estimation.

RAG thresholds: Red - metric value <=1; Amber - 1 < metric value<=2; Green - 2 < metric value <=5; Amber - metric value >5.

Calculation notes

  1. Average velocity is calculated based on the following:

  • Incomplete (current) iteration is not taken into account;

  • If issue assigned on incomplete (current) iteration and futher iteration it is not taken into account till current iteration will not complited;

  • Estimate is taken at an issue completion;

  • Not estimated and null estimates are not included into the calculation;

  • By default, sub items are not included into the calculation. To include sub items go to Project Settings>Data Sources>Task Tracking system>Workflows>Include sub items into metrics calculation.

2. Metric is calculated only for sprints.

Data Source

Data for the metric can be collected from a task tracking system (Jira, TFS, Rally, etc.).

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