🎯 Turn delivery throughput data into actionable insights: Agile Throughput Charts 1.0 🚀

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Modern delivery excellence depends on two fundamental principles: treating your delivery system as a continuous flow and driving improvement through data-informed decisions.

Think of your workflow as a network of interconnected pipelines. Work items flow through these channels, and throughput becomes your essential performance indicator - showing exactly how much value your team delivers in any given timeframe.

That's why we're thrilled to announce the v1.0 release of Agile Throughput Charts - a solution for tracking delivery performance with actual workflow data.

No more guesswork. No cumbersome BI configurations. Agile Throughput Charts delivers clear answers to three critical questions: How much are we delivering?, How consistent is our flow?, and Where is our capacity going?

🔑 Key capabilities and features

1. 📊 Track throughput across your entire workflow or isolate specific stages

2. 📈 Leverage statistical analysis to separate real trends from noise

3. 🔍 Visualize capacity allocation by any Jira field you choose

4. 🎯 Create instant performance dashboards with RAG status zones

5. ⚙️ Connect any data source: boards, projects, releases, or custom JQL

6. 📉 Apply rolling calculations and percentiles for clearer trend visibility

7. 🎨 Switch between visualization modes for different stakeholder needs

Below, we explore how each capability transforms raw Jira data into delivery intelligence - from sprint-level execution to portfolio visibility.

Understanding throughput: The pulse of your delivery system

Throughput quantifies completed work items within a defined period (sprints, weeks, or custom intervals).

Unlike story point-based velocity, throughput counts actual finished items - providing an objective, manipulation-resistant metric that reflects true delivery capacity.

Why does this matter? Because improving delivery speed - whether through process optimization, automation, or AI-assisted workflows - demands a measurement tool that delivers reliability, real-time visibility, and the sensitivity to detect meaningful changes before they impact commitments.

🔶 Gain workflow visibility at every delivery stage

Pinpoint throughput performance across your complete workflow or zoom into specific process stages by defining which status transitions count toward completion.

Configuring stage-specific measurement:

• Choose the final status of any workflow phase

• Automatically include all downstream status values

• Display interval-by-interval throughput in intuitive visual formats

Practical applications:

• Monitor work progression across distinct workflow phases

• Identify congestion points at granular process stages

• Quantify the contribution of individual phases to total output

This precision transforms high-level throughput numbers into actionable workflow intelligence - revealing exactly where your delivery engine performs and where it stalls.

🔶 Separate signal from noise with built-in analytics

Transform raw throughput numbers into predictability insights using statistical measures that reveal whether your delivery performance is genuinely stable or experiencing random fluctuations.

Statistical toolkit includes:

• Mean - establishes your baseline delivery capacity

• Median - provides outlier-resistant central tendency

• 85th percentile - supports conservative commitment planning

• 95th percentile - enables high-confidence delivery forecasts

• Custom percentiles - accommodate your specific risk tolerance

Advanced trend smoothing:

• Apply rolling calculations across configurable time windows

• Filter out temporary spikes and dips to expose underlying patterns

• Distinguish authentic performance shifts from statistical variation

These analytical capabilities answer mission-critical questions: "Can stakeholders rely on our delivery promises?" and "What throughput level represents responsible commitment versus wishful thinking?"

🔶 See where your team's time actually goes

Transform abstract throughput numbers into concrete accountability by segmenting performance data across any Jira field dimension - revealing precisely where team effort concentrates.

Segmentation capabilities:

• Deploy stacked column visualizations for at-a-glance distribution analysis

• Slice data by issue category (User Story, Defect, Technical Task, etc.)

• Analyze by urgency levels, system modules, workflow tags, or custom attributes

• Monitor how resource allocation patterns evolve across delivery cycles

Strategic insights delivered:

• "Is technical debt consuming disproportionate capacity relative to feature development?"

• "Which product areas demand the highest maintenance investment?"

• "How has our work portfolio composition shifted over recent months?"

This transparency proves invaluable for capacity planning, stakeholder communication, and identifying resource allocation patterns that deserve management attention.

🔶 Communicate delivery health without the spreadsheet theater

When team capabilities align with stakeholder expectations, configure visual performance boundaries that instantly communicate status - eliminating lengthy status report preparations.

Instant status communication:

• 🟢 Green zone - performance meeting or surpassing established targets

• 🟠 Amber zone - acceptable performance with room for improvement

• 🔴 Red zone - intervention-required performance requiring immediate action

The leadership advantage - one glance replaces detailed analysis.

Transform delivery discussions from "let me prepare a report" to "here's our current state" - enabling faster decision-making and reducing status reporting overhead for the entire organization.

🔶 From boards to portfolios: universal data connectivity

Agile Throughput Charts draws performance data directly from native Jira structures - no exports, no manual updates, no synchronization delays.

Supported data sources:

• Sprint-based boards (Scrum) and continuous flow boards (Kanban)

• Projects, release milestones, and Epics

• Portfolio-level issue hierarchies

• Saved or custom query filters using JQL syntax

This connectivity enables:

• Single-team performance tracking or multi-team aggregated views

• Cross-project delivery pattern analysis

• Release-specific or Epic-focused throughput measurement

• Unlimited custom perspectives through JQL query flexibility

Complete data transparency - every metric traces directly back to specific Jira items, ensuring stakeholder confidence in reported performance.

💡 Bridging the gap between spreadsheets and enterprise BI

The throughput measurement landscape presents teams with an unsatisfying choice: overly simplistic native solutions requiring manual effort, or enterprise-grade platforms demanding extensive configuration expertise.

Native Jira reports and spreadsheet approaches force delivery managers into manual data extraction and update cycles - creating reporting lag and consuming productive capacity.

Enterprise BI platforms deliver powerful analytics but impose significant upfront setup costs, specialized training requirements, and ongoing maintenance overhead.

Real Agile practitioners require different economics - immediate deployment value combined with progressive customization depth as team sophistication evolves.

Agile Throughput Charts resolve this impossible choice by delivering:

• Zero-latency metrics drawn continuously from live Jira workflow states

• Configuration without complexity - productive within minutes, powerful as expertise grows

• Explicit visibility into delivery patterns and performance shifts

• Evidence-based planning replacing estimation speculation at every organizational level

Teams graduate from "our best guess" planning to "here's what historical performance indicates" commitment - fundamentally transforming stakeholder confidence.

🎯 Get started with Agile Throughput Charts

Ready to replace estimation theater with empirical performance tracking? The Agile Throughput Charts app is now available on the Atlassian Marketplace.
Install it in minutes and start making data-informed delivery decisions using your real Jira data.

Ready to measure what matters?

• 📥 Install Agile Throughput Charts from the Atlassian Marketplace

• 🆓 Start your 30-day free trial to explore throughput measurement in action

• 💬 Contact Broken Build support for setup help, best-practice guidance, or advanced use cases

Support options:

• 📧 Email: support@brokenbuild.net

• 🔗 Customer Portal

• 📅 Book a demo

🧩 Complete your Agile analytics toolkit

Agile Throughput Charts is part of the growing Broken Build Agile Analytics ecosystem on the Atlassian Marketplace.

Individual apps:

• Agile Velocity Chart Gadget

• Agile Cycle Time Chart

• Agile Burnup Burndown Charts

• Agile Cumulative Flow Charts

• Agile Monte Carlo Charts

All-in-One Suite:

• Agile Reports & Gadgets (Bundle) - a unified analytics suite for Jira, including Velocity, Cycle Time, and Burnup/Burndown charts 🚀 Agile Throughput Charts, Agile Monte Carlo Charts, and Agile Cumulative Flow Charts will be added to the bundle soon.

Each Broken Build app integrates seamlessly with Jira dashboards, helping teams plan smarter, manage risk, and deliver with confidence.

Cheers,
The Broken Build Team