How to monitor status change on an active Jira board?

Richard Fenton

We use the active sprint board with ~ 60-70 actions (lots!) for 10 SW engineers over our 2 week sprint.  We meet every morning for a stand up meeting and look at it on a big LCD screen.  I've added this formula to the card colours (through Board, Configure):

status changed AFTER startOfDay(-14h) 

so that any changes since the last meeting (at 10am) are shown as a green card.  For a smaller project with weekly reviews we use (-7d) rather than (-14h) because we meet weekly.

This quickly shows how many cards have changed status since the last meeting.  Some people move along several cards, others none.  It gives a quick snapshot of who's going well and who is blocked and needs help.  This is a helpful feature.  It separates the wheat from the chaff and also highlights new stuff that's just come into the sprint, in the 'to do' column.

Do you know of other ways to do this?  Or better ways?

Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]

Check out the JQL syntax for Status. The "WAS IN" operator may be interesting to you. This allows you to search the issue history (Stuff that shows up in the History tab.) You can provide a date range, add additional search parameters such as Assignee, Issue Type etc. It's a bit of an esoteric boolean, so we don't see it widely used. It does provide a good amount of power to get details around what was in particular workflow Statuses in a given time range. I hope that helps!