Check on work progress
 | When you're up to speed and working in your team, you might want to just see how things are going. This is especially applicable to scrum teams, who work within sprint deadlines. Here's how to use JIRA Software gadgets and reports to find out the critical stuff. |
Dashboard gadgets
What you want to know about your team (say, as a developer) is different than what the team leader wants to know. Dashboard gadgets let you personalise what you see and give you short cuts to important info.
Add a dashboard gadget
- Go to the dashboard by selecting the Dashboard link in the header.
- On the dashboard, Click Add Gadget.
- Use the gadget wizard to choose the gadgets you want to add. You can see a list of these gadgets in Gadgets for JIRA applications.
Here's a few useful ones for tracking progress
| Issues in progress | Time to work! See all issues that are currently in progress and assigned to you. |
| Days in remaining sprint* | Countdown! See how many working days you have before the current sprint ends. |
| Watched issues | See all the issues you are watching and monitor issues that affect you |
| Sprint burndown* | See the burndown for a given sprint in a handy line chart. |
*Applicable to scrum projects only
Reports
Most team members don't need to be concerned about reports from day to day, but if you like to keep your eye on things, these reports are the most useful.
A Burndown Chart shows the actual and estimated amount of work to be done in a sprint. The horizontal x-axis in a Burndown Chart indicates time, and the vertical y-axis indicates cards (issues).
See Burndown Chart
The Sprint Report shows the list of issues in each sprint. It is useful for your Sprint Retrospective meetings, and also for mid-sprint progress checks.
See Sprint Report
The Release Burndown report shows you how your team is progressing against the work for a release.
See Release Burndown
