🧩 From fragmented data to unified insights: Cross-team burnup chart for growing Agile teams 🚀

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Managing multiple teams working toward a shared goal? You're likely juggling separate reports, struggling to see the complete picture, and missing critical insights about overall progress. When work spans across teams and projects, tracking becomes a nightmare of fragmented data and misaligned timelines.

👉 Cross-team burnup chart 📈 transforms this chaos into clarity.

Experience it firsthand with this interactive example where you can explore real multi-team scenarios, adjust configurations, and see how unified reporting changes everything.

But first, let's understand why Jira's standard approach falls short for cross-team visibility.

The limitations of Jira's native chart

Jira's built-in Burnup Chart gadget works well for single-team tracking, but scaling Agile across multiple teams reveals significant gaps.

While the native gadget provides basic sprint progress visualization, it creates serious challenges for larger initiatives:

📍 Single-project limitation – Can't combine data from multiple Jira projects or boards, forcing you to view teams in isolation

🔒 No cross-team aggregation – Requires opening separate charts for each team, making comparative analysis practically impossible

⚙️ Limited customization – Offers minimal configuration options for complex multi-team workflows and varying sprint cadences

📊 Missing context – Doesn't show team-specific contributions within the larger program picture

🎯 Poor scalability – Becomes unwieldy when tracking enterprise-level initiatives spanning numerous teams and projects

These restrictions leave program managers and Scrum Masters manually consolidating data from scattered sources. There's a smarter solution.

Powerful alternative: Cross-team burnup chart by Broken Build

The Cross-team burnup chart by Broken Build eliminates these pain points with a purpose-built solution for multi-team Agile environments. Unlike Jira's native offering, it aggregates progress across multiple teams, projects, and boards into a single, comprehensive view.

This isn't just another chart - it's designed specifically for scaling scenarios where you need to:

✅ Monitor program-level progress across distributed teams
✅ Identify cross-team dependencies and bottlenecks
✅ Align stakeholders with unified, real-time reporting

The chart combines powerful configurability with intuitive simplicity, filling exactly the gaps that Jira's native gadget leaves open. Let's explore what makes it indispensable for growing Agile organizations.

Cross-team burnup chart: Key features & JTBD

Here's where the Cross-team burnup chart truly shines. Each feature addresses specific challenges that multi-team environments face daily.

⚙️ Flexible work scope selection

Define precisely which work to track using Jira's built-in data sources, such as Scrum boards, Kanban boards, projects, releases, epic lists, issue links, or saved JQL filters. Need something unique? Write custom JQL to create exactly the scope view you need.

🎯 Why this helps:

• What you can do: Track any combination of work across your Jira instance without restructuring how teams organize

• The benefit: Generate focused program reports without forcing teams to change their working processes

• Pain point solved: Eliminates the conflict between team-level organization flexibility and program-level reporting needs

🔮 Advanced forecasting with auto-calculated scenarios

Get instant delivery predictions powered by your team's actual historical performance. The chart automatically generates forecasts using maximum, minimum, and average velocity - or configure advanced options like percentile analysis and Monte Carlo simulations for sophisticated planning.

🎯 Why this helps:

• What you can do: Visualize multiple completion timelines simultaneously without manual calculations

• The benefit: Make evidence-based commitments using real team data instead of guesswork

• Pain point solved: Eliminates unrealistic deadline promises and gives stakeholders transparent, data-driven expectations

🔍 Two-level breakdown analysis

Click any time interval on the chart to reveal detailed breakdowns of completed work and scope changes. Analyze data by any Jira field - whether built-in fields like status, assignee, and project, or your own custom fields - giving you complete analytical flexibility.

🎯 Why this helps:

• What you can do: Drill from a high-level program view into granular issue details with a single click

• The benefit: Instantly identify which team or work category drives progress or creates delays

• Pain point solved: Transforms abstract trend lines into actionable insights about specific work patterns

⚡ Remaining work simulation

Test different scope scenarios in real-time by adjusting the remaining work value. See immediately how adding features impacts delivery dates, or how reducing scope accelerates completion - no spreadsheet calculations required.

🎯 Why this helps:

• What you can do: Model scope trade-offs and negotiate realistic commitments during planning sessions

• The benefit: Quantify the timeline impact of scope decisions before making irreversible commitments

• Pain point solved: Removes guesswork from scope negotiations and prevents late-stage delivery surprises

These features work together to provide the complete picture that scaling Agile demands - turning scattered team data into actionable program insights.

How Cross-team burnup chart works in action (Interactive example)

Want to see these capabilities in action before committing? The 👉 Cross-team burnup report 📈 offers a fully interactive demonstration.

Play with different filter configurations, adjust team groupings, modify time ranges, and explore various display options. The example uses realistic multi-team scenarios so you can understand exactly how the chart would function with your own data.

Try it yourself! Experiment with the settings and discover how unified cross-team visibility changes your perspective on program progress.

Cross-team burnup chart: Pro tips

Ready to maximize value from your cross-team burnup chart? These advanced techniques unlock hidden insights.

🎯 Combine interval breakdown with issue filtering – After expanding a breakdown section, click on specific groups to filter the issue list below; this lets you jump from high-level trends to exact work items causing bottlenecks

📊 Layer multiple forecast scenarios – Display several custom forecasts simultaneously (optimistic, realistic, pessimistic) to give stakeholders a range-based view instead of a single prediction

🔢 Apply velocity percentile forecasting – Set custom forecast scenarios using percentile analysis (like 85th percentile) where past velocities are sorted to identify the value below which your desired percentage of historical performance falls

🎲 Leverage Monte Carlo simulation forecasting – Run 100,000 velocity simulations using your historical data to model thousands of possible future scenarios, then select your desired probability threshold (like 85%) to see when work is most likely to be completed

⚙️ Configure capacity allocation coefficients – Apply custom coefficients to velocity values in forecasting calculations to account for team capacity changes, holidays, or resource reallocation scenarios

Each tip transforms the chart from a passive reporting tool into an active management instrument that drives better decisions.

Setting up Cross-team burnup chart on your Jira Dashboard

Cross-team burnup chart is part of the Agile Burnup Burndown Charts app, available as a separate gadget or inside the Agile Reports and Gadgets bundle.

Setup takes just minutes - no complex configurations or data migrations required.

1️⃣ Navigate to your Jira Dashboard
Access any dashboard where you want program-level visibility

2️⃣ Click "Add gadget"
Open the gadget browser from the dashboard menu

3️⃣ Search for "Agile Burnup Burndown Charts"
Locate the app in the available gadgets list

4️⃣ Configure your chart settings
Select projects, boards, or JQL filters; define team groupings; set your desired time range and display preferences

You're all set - start tracking cross-team progress immediately! The chart updates automatically as your teams log work.

🎯 Take control of cross-team progress tracking and forecasting

Fragmented team reports create blind spots that derail delivery. The Cross-team burnup chart in Jira Dashboard eliminates this fragmentation and delivers the program-level clarity your scaling initiatives demand - backed by sophisticated statistical forecasting that enterprise teams need.

Key advantages at a glance:
✅ Advanced forecasting with percentile analysis and Monte Carlo simulations
✅ Capacity allocation coefficients for realistic resource planning scenarios
✅ What-if scenario modeling with statistical confidence levels
✅ Powerful breakdown capabilities using any Jira field for deep analysis
✅ Flexible scope definition through boards, filters, epics, or custom JQL
✅ Direct issue inspection with detailed filtering and sorting options

📊 Explore the Cross-team burnup chart example to experience interactive multi-team reporting and test different configurations before installation.

Ready to transform your cross-team visibility? Install the Agile Burnup Burndown Charts app as a standalone gadget, or get even more value with the Agile Reports and Gadgets bundle. Start with a 30-day free trial to test drive full functionality. It's completely free for teams of up to 10 users, and no credit card is required to begin.

🚀 Add the burnup chart for multiple teams to your Jira Dashboard today and give your organization the unified insights it needs to scale successfully.

✨ Stop juggling fragmented reports - start leading with clarity.