Broken Build Blog:
Save Jira users’ nerves!

Cycle Time charts are now included in the Agile Reports and Gadgets suite! Nothing changes for the current Cycle Time Charts app users, but it’s big news for the Agile Reports and Gadgets users, as they get one more Jira gadget in their toolset.

It is a tale about how four powerful velocity charts for Scrum and Kanban transform any Jira dashboard into a performance analysis powerhouse, giving you deep insights into team and organizational patterns you never knew existed.

For some reason, people love to debate whether to use velocity or cycle time metrics in their Agile analytics. But why choose when they complement each other? Here’s a quick guide on how to marry these metrics for Agile success.

Cycle time is a popular metric for Agile teams. To analyze it, you can use Jira tools, or go beyond Jira - there are plenty of cycle time charts for any need available. We took six most popular tools to compare them by features and pricing. Enjoy!

There are three main cycle time charts in the Atlassian Marketplace: Great Gadgets by Stonik Byte, Time in Status by SaasJet and Cycle Time Chart Gadget by Broken Build. Let’s put them side by side and see how they differ.

We received a lot of feedback on the built-in Jira charts for cycle time tracking until we thought, "Hey, why don’t we create an Atlassian Marketplace app that would finally give teams what they need?" And this is how we developed the Cycle Time Chart Gadget.