📈 Epic burnup chart: The missing piece in your Jira reporting toolkit 🚀

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Agile teams constantly struggle with epic-level visibility - knowing whether large initiatives are on track, how scope changes impact delivery, and when stakeholders can expect results. Without proper epic progress tracking, teams operate blindly, making it impossible to course-correct before deadlines slip.

The Epic burnup chart provides the missing visibility layer that transforms how you monitor and communicate epic progress and completion.

👉 Try the interactive example to see this powerful visualization in action at the Epic burnup chart 📈

But first, let's examine why Jira's built-in options fall short of what modern Agile teams need.

The limitations of Jira's native chart

Jira provides two native epic tracking options: the Epic Report and Epic Burndown Report. While these offer basic progress visibility, they fall short when teams need comprehensive forecasting and analytical capabilities.

The Epic Report tracks remaining work and highlights unestimated issues, while the Epic Burndown Report shows completion velocity with basic forecasting. However, both struggle with critical limitations:

• 🔮 Limited forecasting scope - Epic Burndown provides basic completion projections only when three or more active sprints exist

• 📊 No burnup visualization - Only burndown charts available, missing the scope change perspective that burnup provides

• ⚙️ Fixed configuration - Cannot customize estimation fields, done statuses, or time intervals to match team workflows

• 🎯 Single epic focus - No support for multi-epic selection or cross-epic comparative analysis

• 📋 No dashboard integration - Cannot add native Epic charts as reusable dashboard gadgets for ongoing monitoring

These constraints leave teams without the analytical depth and flexible visualization needed for strategic epic management.

Fortunately, there's a comprehensive solution that addresses every one of these pain points while integrating seamlessly with your existing Jira workflow.

Powerful alternative: Epic burnup chart by Broken Build

Epic burnup chart by Broken Build transforms epic tracking and forecasting from basic reporting into comprehensive delivery intelligence. Unlike Jira's rigid native options, this solution offers complete configurability while maintaining the simplicity teams need for daily use.

The chart addresses core Jobs-to-be-Done, including real-time epic health monitoring, scope change visualization, stakeholder communication enhancement, and automated completion forecasting. It fills Jira's gaps by providing the visual clarity and analytical depth that epic management demands.

Let's explore the specific features that make this solution indispensable for serious Agile teams seeking epic success.

Epic burnup chart: Key Features & JTBD

This comprehensive epic tracking solution delivers five essential capabilities that transform large-scale initiative management through automated analytics and flexible visualization.

🔮 1. Automatic forecasts

Generate three delivery projections automatically based on the team's historical delivery pace: a minimum velocity (conservative), an average velocity (realistic), and a maximum velocity (optimistic scenarios).

🎯 Why this helps:

• Data-driven planning - See realistic completion dates without manual calculations or guesswork

• Risk assessment - Compare conservative vs. optimistic scenarios to understand delivery uncertainty

• Stakeholder alignment - Present evidence-based timelines that account for team performance variability

🎲 2. Custom what-if scenarios

Test different planning assumptions by simulating custom velocity rates or target completion dates to evaluate delivery feasibility under various conditions.

🎯 Why this helps:

• Resource planning - Model how team size changes or velocity improvements impact delivery schedules

• Commitment validation - Test whether fixed deadlines are achievable with the current team capacity

• Strategic decisions - Support planning conversations with modeled outcomes rather than speculation

📈 3. Scope modeling

Simulate how changing requirements affect delivery by setting custom remaining work values or defining scope growth patterns per time interval.

🎯 Why this helps:

• Dynamic planning - Account for epics where the full scope isn't defined upfront

• Risk mitigation - Identify how scope creep impacts delivery before it becomes critical

• Capacity management - Adjust resource allocation based on anticipated requirement evolution

🔍 4. Interval breakdowns with issue-level details

Click any time period to explore detailed breakdowns of completed work, remaining tasks, and scope changes with grouping by project, issue type, assignee, status, or other Jira fields.

🎯 Why this helps:

• Performance analysis - Understand what drives progress or delays in specific timeframes

• Team contribution insights - Identify which teams or individuals are advancing epic completion

• Bottleneck identification - Pinpoint where work accumulates and address process inefficiencies

⚙️ 5. Advanced customization options

Configure estimation fields (story points, issue count, time spent), done statuses, issue type filters, and custom JQL queries to match team workflows perfectly.

🎯 Why this helps:

• Workflow alignment - Adapt tracking to existing team processes without forcing methodology changes

• Noise reduction - Focus analysis on relevant work streams and eliminate irrelevant data

• Cross-team standardization - Maintain consistent measurement approaches across different project contexts

These features work together to create comprehensive epic intelligence that transforms uncertainty into actionable delivery insights.

Epic burnup chart in action: Interactive example

Experience the chart's full capabilities through hands-on exploration with real project data and customizable settings.

👉 Test drive the interactive demo at the Epic burnup report 📈 to experiment with different configurations, filter options, and visualization modes using sample epic data.

The interactive example lets you adjust timeframes, modify scope scenarios, and see how different team velocities impact delivery projections - giving you a complete understanding of the chart's analytical power.

🚀 Try it yourself! Spend a few minutes exploring the different configuration options to see how this solution adapts to your specific epic tracking and forecasting needs.

Epic burnup chart: Pro tips

Unlock advanced forecasting capabilities and extract deeper analytical insights with these sophisticated techniques that experienced teams use to maximize epic tracking effectiveness.

• 🎯 Velocity percentile analysis - Configure forecast precision by setting velocity percentiles (e.g., 85%) where the system identifies the delivery pace that your team achieves 85% of the time, providing more conservative and reliable estimates than simple averages

• 🎲 Monte Carlo simulation forecasting - Leverage 100,000 simulation runs based on historical velocity patterns to generate probability-based completion estimates, allowing you to communicate delivery confidence (e.g., "85% probability of completion by this date") rather than single-point estimates

• 📊 Multi-interval velocity comparison - Track epic progress using different time intervals (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) simultaneously to identify which measurement frequency provides the most stable forecasting for your team's workflow patterns

• 🔄 Cross-epic velocity benchmarking - Compare completion velocities across similar epics to establish team performance baselines and identify factors that accelerate or impede large initiative delivery

Setting up the Epic burnup chart on your Jira Dashboard

The Epic burnup chart is part of the Agile Burnup Burndown Charts app, available as a separate gadget or inside the Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle.

Setup takes just minutes with Jira's standard gadget installation process.

Installation steps:

1️⃣ Navigate to your Jira dashboard and locate the "Add gadget" option in your preferred dashboard location

2️⃣ Click "Add gadget" to open the gadget marketplace and browse available reporting options

3️⃣ Search for "Agile Burnup Burndown Charts" in the search field to find the Epic burnup chart solution

4️⃣ Click "Add" and configure your filters, epic selection criteria, display preferences, and timeframe settings to match your team's workflow

You're all set - start tracking epic progress immediately with your newly configured burnup chart gadget!

🗝️ Unlock intelligent epic management today 🚀

Epic burnup chart transforms uncertainty into confidence through automatic forecasting that turns historical team data into actionable delivery intelligence, revolutionizing how Agile teams manage large-scale initiatives.

Key advantages that drive strategic success:

• Automatic projections - Generate minimum, average, and maximum velocity scenarios without manual calculations

• Monte Carlo precision - Leverage 100,000 simulation runs for probability-based completion estimates

• What-if scenario modeling - Test velocity changes and target dates before making commitments

• Scope growth simulation - Anticipate how requirement changes impact delivery timelines

• Advanced customization - Tailor the Epic burnup report to match team workflows and measurement preferences

👉 Experience the Epic burnup chart gadget power with the Epic burnup chart example 📈 to see how automatic forecasting transforms epic tracking in your Jira environment.

Transform your epic planning approach with analytical capabilities that eliminate guesswork from large initiative management. Install either the standalone Agile Burnup Burndown Charts app or choose the comprehensive Agile Reports & Gadgets bundle for complete epic progress tracking and forecasting capabilities. Start your 30-day free trial today with no credit card required, and enjoy free access for teams of up to 10 users.

🚀 Start tracking and forecasting epic success with confidence - install the Epic burnup chart and transform uncertainty into reliable delivery outcomes.

✨ Your team will appreciate the clarity, and stakeholders will trust your data-driven delivery commitments!