Stories Which Are Closed But With Any Sub-tasks Still Incomplete

Purpose

Stories Which Are Closed But With Any Sub-tasks Still Incomplete shows a number of completed items with incomplete sub items.

How metric helps 

Stories Which Are Closed But With Any Sub-tasks Still Incomplete helps to highlight an issue with wrong items statuses. Wrong status of an item may affect the progress metrics like Velocity, Burn up. The expected metric value is 0.

How metric works 

Chart overview 

Chart shows a number of completed items with incomplete sub items - number in the center. Target value is above the chart.  

By click on a chart a pop up appears with the following information got from the task tracking system: 

  • Issue ID

  • Type

  • Priority

  • Summary

Calculation 

Stories Which Are Closed But With Any Sub-tasks Still Incomplete is a number of parent items in a "Done" status with sub items in an "Open" or "In Progress" status.

RAG thresholds: Red - metric value > 0; Green - metric value = 0. 

Assumptions

1 Metric shows values for the items created within the last 90 days.

2 "Open" status is a status from "Open" bucket in Project Settings>Data Sources>Task Tracking System>Workflows.

3 "In Progress" status is a status from "In Progress" bucket in Project Settings>Data Sources>Task Tracking System>Workflows.

4 "Done" status is a status from "Done" bucket in Project Settings>Data Sources>Task Tracking System>Workflows.

Data Source 

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