Efficiency

Percent Active

This view plots the percentage of active work items over a specified date range. Hover over a plot point to display more information about the percentage of active cards, the number of inactive cards, and the number of active cards for a specific date.

Card Count

This view presents the total number of cards in a bar chart, with each bar separated into active (blue) and inactive (white) cards.

Add and Remove Lanes

Click Select Lanes to Include to open a simplified representation of the lane structure on the board.

• To exclude a lane from the diagram, click on the lane title. Deselected lanes will turn grey and will be excluded from the diagram.

• To include a lane, click on the lane title of an excluded lane. Included lanes appear as blue.

• To exclude or include all lanes within a parent lane, click the parent lane's title.

Lanes can be added back by clicking on the lane header again. Any individual lane may be removed, or you can remove all lanes underneath a parent lane by clicking on the parent lane header. Note that the Efficiency report only displays the In Process lanes by default, and will not allow the selection of any additional lanes.

Select the Date Range

You may focus in on a specific date range using the date fields located to the right of the diagram. Click within the fields to reveal a calendar dropdown and choose a date .

Define the Inactive Value

Inactive cards are defined as having no actions (such as edits, comments, or attachments) taken on them for a set period of time. To set a threshold for the period of time to pass before a card is considered inactive, use the Inactive (In Days) field.

Calculate Work In Progress Based On Card Size

AgilePlace allows you to specify the size value within a card. These size values may represent any metric that your team uses to specify relative size of the work item. These may be hours, days, story points, complexity points, or whatever unit of measurement that your team finds useful. If your team is using the size values to specify the relative size of each card, this metric may be more useful than the number of work items within a lane. For these situations, AgilePlace allows you to generate the Efficiency Report based on the total size of the cards rather than the number of cards in a given lane.

To enable the option, simply check the box beside Calculate based on Card Size . The graph will now calculate the work in progress based on the size specified within the card. Note that any work items that do not have a size specified or have a size of 0 (zero) will be considered with a size of 1 (one) when calculating queue size.

Filter By Card Type

You can filter the Efficiency Report by card type by selecting one or more card types from the Card Types tab.

Filter By Custom Icon

You can filter the Efficiency Report by custom icon by selecting one or more card types from the Custom Icon tab (labeled Class of Service by default).

Filter by Priority

To filter the chart by Priority, click Priorities and select the priorities you want to include from the list.

Filter By Card Tag

You can filter the Efficiency Report by card tags by entering tags in the field identified below. Use an exclamation point before a tag to specifically exclude cards with that tag.

A note about how filtering by tags works: The Efficiency Report will count only cards that have the tags you specified. Using the exclamation point to exclude a tag isn't necessary unless you are expecting the cards to also have one of the tags you have specified for inclusion. In the example above, Cards tagged with "Release 1.2" or "defect" will be included, unless they also are tagged with "architecture."