📢 Coming soon: Agile Cumulative Flow Charts - our new flow metrics powerhouse 🚀

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Hey Atlassian Community! 👋

We're thrilled to announce that Broken Build is launching a brand-new app: Agile Cumulative Flow Charts - coming soon to the Atlassian Marketplace as part of our expanding Agile Reports suite!

Why we built this app

Teams consistently ask us: "Is our workflow stable?" "Where are items getting stuck?" "Are we on track to deliver on time?"

The Cumulative flow diagram is one of the most powerful tools in Agile analytics, yet it's often underutilized. While Jira provides basic CFD functionality, teams need deeper insights and more flexibility to optimize their delivery process truly.

Agile Cumulative Flow Charts address five critical workflow challenges:

✅ Validate flow stability - Confirm that work arriving and departing remains balanced, with WIP staying predictable over time

✅ Measure flow efficiency - Use a count-based approach to reveal the ratio of active work versus queued or waiting items, exposing process waste

✅ Investigate bottlenecks - Identify which stages and work types are causing delays, so you can reduce delivery time and increase throughput

✅ Set and enforce WIP limits - Define capacity caps for each stage and work type, with visible alerts when thresholds are breached to maintain smooth flow

✅ Track any scope delivery against the ideal slope - Overlay an ideal completion line on your status distribution to assess both delivery pace and workflow stage health

What makes our Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) stand out

Our Cumulative flow diagram for Jira delivers the flexibility and actionable metrics Agile teams need:

🔍 Cumulative Flow health metrics and trends analysis

Comprehensive workflow intelligence:

• Monitor Arrival/Departure rates and WIP to validate workflow stability in a single view

• Analyze Arrival vs Departure trends to uncover imbalances and forecast potential risks in your burnup flow

• Balance WIP against Throughput to quickly identify inefficiencies in your delivery process

• Compare the Initial scope vs the Ideal slope to detect deviations from your planned delivery pace in the burndown flow

⚙️ Advanced band configuration and display options

Tailored to your workflow:

• Configure by status categories, individual statuses, or custom groups to mirror your team's process

• Switch between absolute numbers and percentage views for different analytical angles

• Control band visibility and ordering to simplify complex analysis

• Customize color palettes to make critical workflow states instantly recognizable

📈📉 Burnup/Burndown visualization for any scope

Flexible data source support:

Generate Cumulative flow diagrams for:

• Multiple Scrum and Kanban boards

• Projects, Epics, Releases, or any issue type hierarchy

Whether you're running Scrum sprints, Kanban flow, or scaling with SAFe, our CFD diagram adapts seamlessly to your methodology.

...and more!

From industry-standard stacked area representations to intelligent trend detection, we've built Continuous flow diagrams that transform data into decisions.

Stay tuned for launch! 🚀

We're putting the finishing touches on Agile Cumulative Flow Charts and look forward to putting it in your hands soon.

Be first to know:

💌 Join the waiting list:

• Reach out to our support team to get early updates and launch notifications.

🧭 Explore more:

• Book a demo to get a preview of how the app works.

• Documentation - learn more about our Agile Cumulative Flow Charts app.

📣 Stay tuned for the detailed release post!

Complete your Agile metrics toolkit 🛠️

While you're waiting for Agile Cumulative Flow Charts, check out our existing Agile analytics solutions on the Atlassian Marketplace:

Individual Apps:

• Agile Velocity Charts

• Agile Cycle Time Charts

• Agile Burnup Burndown Charts

Complete Solution:

• Agile Reports & Gadgets (Bundle) - Access the combined capabilities of all our individual apps in a single comprehensive package, including Velocity Charts, Cycle Time Charts, and Burnup Burndown Charts.

Every app integrates natively with your Jira Dashboard, delivering the Agile analytics and delivery insights essential for informed decisions and continuous process improvement.

Let's transform flow metrics into clarity and action. See you at launch! 🎉

Cheers,
The Broken Build Team