Is there any free Gadget Dashboard to calculate Project Velocity please

[Emna Elleuch]

I'm working on a new project Dashboard and would like to add a Gadget that calculates Velocity, is there any interesting free Gadget or plugins that I can use/add?

Thanks

[Mark Segall · Accepted solution]

Hi @Emna Elleuch - Unfortunately no.  There are two issues preventing this natively:

1. Native gadgets are based upon issue count
2. There is no ability to build a trend by sprint

The only thing you can really do natively is create tasks for each of the boards you're trying to get velocity for.  In the description, provide a link to the velocity report and then use the filter results gadget to expose the description.  This will create a clickable link on your dashboard to each velocity report.  Admittedly, it's not the most elegant, but it's the best I've come up with in environments where I don't have the luxury of marketplace apps.

Otherwise, you'll want to look into something like the Agile Velocity Chart Gadget marketplace add-on.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215768/agile-velocity-chart-gadget?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

[Emna Elleuch]

Thanks @Mark Segall , i've tried your solution and I think it's a good idea. Now, Can we get the velocity Calculated in the Velocity Report? Something like a line/charts to show the calculated velocity?

 Currently, it only shows Sprints, Commitment and completed Tasks.

Thanks again for your workaround 

[Mark Segall]

To confirm... When you say, "calculate velocity", are you looking for something that provides a velocity forecast?  If this is the case, there are two other reports:

• Epic Burndown - This will give you an estimation of how many sprints are left for a given Epic based upon historic velocity.
• Version Report - Many people think that releases are strictly for "releasing".  However, you can also look at them as milestones.  Set the FixVersion on all issues you're tracking and then after a sprint or two, you'll get a very powerful report that provides a burn-up, scope that was added after the release started and a bar that shows the pessimistic to optimistic range of when the issues in that release are set to complete.