Webinar Recap- How to Streamline Agile Reporting in Jira for Faster Insights-by Amoeboids X OBSS

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Did you miss our webinar on September 17th, 2025, "How to Streamline Agile Reporting in Jira for Faster Insights"? Then it's possible that your teams are still struggling with manual data collection, inconsistent reports, restricted access, and delayed insights that don't fit with the Agile cadence.

If reporting feels like a burden, then it’s time for you to simplify!

In this article, we have covered the webinar highlights, and you will see how the Automated Release Notes & Reports app for Jira and Timepiece – Time in Status for Jira can automate reporting, reveal bottlenecks, and deliver actionable insights faster.

Our host, Mithila Shigaonkar, Marketing Manager at Amoeboids along with speakers Shruti Darekar, Product Manager at Amoeboids and Emre Toptancı, Head of App Development at OBSS will walk you through these solutions.

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Key Highlights of the Webinar

1. Common Agile Reporting Challenges in Jira

• Manual Data Collection: Agile teams frequently spend significant time manually sorting Jira data and copying it into dashboards. Repetitive formatting increases the effort, which ends in glitches and delays in the reporting process.

• Inconsistent and fragmented report: Each team uses a different report template, which leads to inconsistency. As a result, leadership receives a wide range of stories, making it difficult to review and gain a clear understanding.

• Limited Visibility into bottlenecks and trends: Reporting issues are usually discovered after delays have occurred. This makes it difficult to detect and eliminate errors in the early stages, leading to ineffectiveness and decreased reporting accuracy.

• Misaligned with Agile Cadence: Sprints and releases have already ended by the time reports are prepared. This delay causes a misalignment with the agile cadence, reducing the data's actionable value to teams.

• Hard to share insights in real time: Accessing real-time data is a significant challenge for teams. This lack of visibility impedes collaboration and slows decision-making throughout the development process.

These challenges highlight the need for a better solution for agile teams, which is exactly what we're here to discuss today.

2. Five Strategies to simplify reporting

Agile reporting does not need to be complicated or time-consuming. With the correct approach, teams can save time, enhance accuracy, and stay on track. Now let's look at five practical strategies.

• Strategy 1: Automate Data Collection

The first strategy is to automate data collection while avoiding spending countless hours manually collecting, editing, and formatting Jira data. By automating this process, teams can save time and focus their efforts on providing real value in the product.

• Timepiece – Time in Status for Jira (by OBSS): This app automatically collects time-in-status information from Jira issue histories. The best part? There are no changes required to your Jira issues or workflow configurations.

• Automated Release Notes and Reports (by Amoeboids): This app automatically collects Jira data using JQL and creates reports instantly. There is no additional setup or manual exports, everything runs smoothly in the background. Automation makes reporting faster, more consistent, and stress-free.

• Strategy 2: Spot Bottlenecks Instantly

Every workflow experiences delays, but the real problem occurs when they are discovered too late—often during retrospectives. Instead, consider identifying bottlenecks early on. When teams have the right visibility in their reports, they can take proactive steps, remove barriers early, and streamline the reporting process overall. This strategy aims to change retrospect into foresight.

Here’s how you can achieve it:

• Automated Release Notes and Reports (by Amoeboids): Makes bottlenecks visible to all stakeholders by identifying roadblocks and delays directly in reports.

• Timepiece - Time in Status for Jira (by OBSS): Provides detailed reports with Time in Status, Cycle Time, and customised metrics, allowing teams to identify delays instantly and act faster.

Improved workflows and quicker fixes are the results of instant visibility.

• Strategy 3: Customize Reports for Every Team

Teams don't operate in the same manner. Everybody has different priorities, dashboards, and workflows, so one report template won't work for everyone. While the development team may concentrate on fixing bugs, the product team may wish to monitor feature priorities. Reports must provide specific answers to each team's questions in order to be truly valuable.

Here's how personalisation enables it:

• The Automated Release Notes and Reports app for Jira provides flexible template customisation and field mapping features.

• Each team receives reports that are adjusted according to their specific needs.

• Faster and more relevant insights enable teams to make better decisions while saving time.

Customisable reports turn reporting into a tool that benefits everyone.

• Strategy 4: Track Trends Over Time

Live data tells you what's going on right now, but weekly automated reports provide a bigger picture. Looking beyond the current sprint allows teams to uncover performance patterns across multiple sprints and identify problems before they escalate. This proactive approach reduces delays, manages backlogs, and increases efficiency over time.

Here’s why it matters:

• Weekly Automated Reports = Visibility into performance trends across sprints.

• Spot early warning signs like rising cycle times or piling backlogs.

• Act proactively to avoid problems rather than reacting after they have caused delays.

Tracking trends allows agile teams to stay ahead, enhance continuously, and make more informed decisions for long-term success.

• Strategy 5: Turn Data into Action

Data is only useful when it influences decisions. Reports should help teams make better decisions and produce faster outcomes, not just numbers on a page. Teams can turn reporting into actual progress by acting on insights rather than merely observing them.

Here's how you can do it:

• Timepiece – Time in Status for Jira (by OBSS): Early detection of bottlenecks prevents them from growing into more serious issues.

• Use report insights to shape priorities, fine-tune workflows, and make improvements over time.

Putting data into action ensures continuous improvement and measurable impact. These five strategies outline a clear path toward simplifying agile reporting. They work together to save time, increase visibility, and make more informed decisions.

3. Tools to support these strategies

Two powerful apps designed to simplify reporting and decision-making will help you accelerate your agile processes.

• Timepiece – Time in Status for Jira helps teams track time-based metrics like Time in Status, Cycle Time, and other custom reports. It provides teams with the clarity to identify delays early and make quicker, more informed decisions due to integrated bottleneck detection and trend visualisation.

• The Automated Release Notes & Reports app for Jira automates reporting, provides flexible field mapping, and includes ready-to-use templates for consistent communication. It provides quick insights using AI-powered summaries, allowing stakeholders to stay aligned with minimal effort.

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4. Best Practices for Actionable Reporting

To be truly effective, agile reporting should feel natural, insightful, and actionable, not burdensome. Following best practices ensures that reports serve all stakeholders and improve workflows.

Here are the main best practices:

• Align with Agile cadence: It makes sure that reports fit seamlessly into sprints and releases.

• Customise per audience: Executives require high-level information, procurement officers require priorities, and development teams require technical data.

• Leverage visuals over raw data: Charts and visuals make information more understandable and actionable.

• Integrate reports into workflows: Integrate reports into your daily processes to identify bottlenecks early and stay proactive.

Conclusion

Agile reporting does not have to be a tedious task, it can lay the groundwork for better decisions and faster delivery. Your teams will gain clarity and confidence by automating data collection, identifying bottlenecks early on, creating unique insights, tracking trends, and putting data to use. 

So are you excited to simplify your reporting journey? 

Start using tools like the Timepiece and Automated Release Notes & Reports apps today, and change your Jira reports into real business impact.

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