The power of Jira Dashboards
In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations rely on data-driven insights to enhance decision-making and optimize project execution. Jira dashboards serve as centralized hubs for project tracking, offering real-time visibility into key performance indicators (KPIs), team productivity and workflow efficiency.
An effective Jira dashboard goes beyond basic issue tracking — it consolidates key project metrics, offering teams a single source of truth for planning, execution, and continuous improvement.
Who are Jira Dashboards useful for?
Project managers – Jira dashboards provide actionable insights into project health, helping them make informed decisions that drive efficiency.
Agile teams – Jira dashboards facilitate transparency and alignment, ensuring that progress remains visible and obstacles are addressed proactively.
Leadership – Jira dashboards offer a high-level perspective on project performance, aiding strategic planning and resource allocation.
Choosing the right gadgets is the key to success
Without the right gadgets, Jira users often find themselves buried in raw issue lists, struggling to get a clear picture of where their projects stand. The native Jira gadgets provide a good foundation, but enhancing your dashboard with additional gadgets is a key success factor and can make the difference between simply managing tasks and strategically driving projects forward. This is where Great Gadgets app for Jira (by StonikByte) comes in!
Great Gadgets for Jira – Complete set of gadgets for project tracking in one single app!
Great Gadgets for Jira Cloud and Data Center offers a complete set of dashboard gadgets for tracking projects in an easy and efficient way. Whether you need to track sprint performance, analyze workflow efficiency, measure team velocity, or identify bottlenecks, you will find the perfect gadgets to track every aspect of your project.
Here are some of the gadgets that Great Gadgets offers
Pivot Table & Pivot Chart
This gadget is ideal for custom reporting and advanced data analysis. It allows creating multi-dimensional stats, pivot tables, heatmap tables and pivot charts of various types, with counts, sums, averages, or percentages. It can be used in many ways, from displaying epic progress to advanced statistics based on fields that native Jira gadgets don’t support (like Organization, Sentiment, or Approvals).
Advanced Issue Filter Formula
This gadget enables teams to perform complex calculations on Jira issues. It calculates and displays the results of up to 9 math formulas applied on the numeric fields of issues from up to 6 filters or JQLs. Use it to display counts, sums, percentages, or the results of any math formula to calculate custom KPIs.
Issue Filter Formula
This gadget calculates and displays the result of a simple formula (COUNT, SUM, AVERAGE) on a numeric field of the issues from a filter or JQL, letting you visualize specific project key-numbers and KPIs. The results can be displayed as a number colored by value, a gauge chart, or on a 5-star scale.
Team Wallboard
Knowing what the team is working on is useful for tracking project progress and ensuring smooth collaboration. This gadget displays the wallboard with the work items from a specified agile board or filter, allowing you to see what your team is currently working on. It supports swimlanes and quick filters and allows customizing the card colors.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
This gadget organizes issues from a filter or JQL into a tree diagram in the form of Epics > Stories, Tasks, Bugs > Subtasks along with their current status. This structured view helps see the high-level status of your epics or the entire project. Additionally, it can display Initiatives on top of epics.
Sprint Burndown Burnup Chart
This gadget is essential in Scrum, as it helps track the progress of the team during a sprint. It displays the burndown or burnup chart for any past sprint and can be used with any type of estimates. Additionally, it can be configured to include the subtasks in the calculation.
Release Burndown Burnup Chart
For long-term planning, this gadget is essential for tracking progress at the release level. It displays the burndown or burnup chart for issues in a filter or JQL representing the release scope. When managing large projects, this gadget can be very useful as it can be configured as an epic or a cross-team burndown chart.
Team Velocity
Measuring team velocity is key in agile development. This gadget calculates and displays the average velocity of an agile (Scrum) team based on past sprints, providing insights into how much work the team delivers. It supports any type of estimates, and it can also include the subtasks in the calculation.
Cycle Time Trend Chart
Ensuring consistent delivery times is key for Kanban and ITSM teams. This gadget calculates metrics like Average Cycle Time, Lead Time, Resolution Time or the time between two workflow statuses and displays them as a trend chart, offering insights on how fast your team delivers.
Control Chart
This gadget displays the issues by their Cycle Time, Lead Time, Resolution Time or the time between two workflow statuses in a plot chart, along with the average line, trend line and standard deviation. A custom threshold can be set to easily identify the issues that took longer than expected and breached the SLA.
Histogram Chart
This gadget displays the distribution of issues from a filter or board by their Cycle Time, Lead Time or Resolution Time, showing how many issues were in each range. A custom threshold can be set to identify the SLA breaches.
Time In Status
This gadget calculates how long issues stayed in each workflow status, status category, or board column, offering insights on where the delays are and what parts of the workflow should be optimized. It can display the total time or the average time and group data by different criteria, such as Assignee or Priority.
Kanban Velocity/Throughput
For Kanban and ITSM teams, measuring throughput is essential. This gadget calculates and displays the average velocity/throughput of an agile (Kanban) team based on the issues from a filter or agile board. Use this gadget to see how much work your team completes over time and the trend.
Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
This gadget is a must-have for visualizing workflow stability, as it shows the evolution of the amount of work in a stacked area chart. It displays the number of issues from an agile dashboard or filter over time, broken down by status, status category, dashboard column, type, or a custom field.
WIP Aging Chart
This gadget displays the issues from an agile board or filter by their age, whether it’s the time in the current status, board column, or since the issue’s creation. Setting a custom threshold helps teams easily identify issues that are taking too long and have breached (or are about to breach) the SLA.
WIP Run Chart
Measuring the amount of work in progress (WIP) over time helps you optimize team performance. This gadget shows how much work in progress (WIP) your team has over time, helping you identify trends and patterns in your process. This helps teams in determining if they’ve reached an optimal work pace or if adjustments are necessary.
Countdown
Staying aware of upcoming deadlines is important for team focus and timely project completion. This gadget displays the time remaining until an upcoming event, helping your team stay informed about important milestones, project launches, or even upcoming company events.
Conclusion
Well-structured Jira dashboards represent more than just reporting tools: they are a strategic decision-making hub that empowers teams to track performance, identify bottlenecks and continuously improve project execution.
Having this complete set of gadgets in your project dashboards provides the insights needed to drive project success and it makes your project tracking job effortless and much more efficient.
We are here to support organizations in implementing the right gadgets they need in their dashboard in order to make the right decisions in their business. Book 1 free hour with us to discuss your needs.
