Dashboard
Is the current team's sprint delivery healthy right now, and what changed since last sprint?
What it answers
Dashboard is a read-only aggregator: it is a single screen pulling together figures that Sprint Summary, Cycle Time, WIP Monitor and Aging & Blocked already compute on their own views. No figure is calculated on the Dashboard itself — every tile reads the same number its owning view would show, so the two screens can never quietly disagree.
What you see
- A subtitle: "{team} · sprint health snapshot."
- A "Since last sprint" banner — a short sentence summarising what changed (for example, cycle time up, carryover steady, reliability improved), or a note that there isn't yet enough finished-sprint history to say.
- An eight-tile reading strip, in order: Reliability, Delivered, Carryover, Median cycle time, Throughput/week, WIP, Blocked, Time to start — each with a value, a change arrow versus last sprint, a tone badge, and a small sparkline.
- "This sprint so far" — a progress ring for the running sprint (items, elapsed time, status).
- "The last six sprints" — a bar chart of items delivered per sprint.
- "Oldest in progress or blocked" — a five-row table, blocked items first, then oldest first, scoped across the whole team, not just the running sprint.
How we calculate it
- Trend window
- Fixed at the 6 most recently finished sprints for every trending figure.
- Reliability tone
- Under 50% is graded critical, under 75% caution, 75% and above positive.
- Carryover tone
- 50% or more is critical, 25% or more is caution, under 25% is positive.
- Cycle time and time to start
- Need at least 10 finished (or started) items in the window to show a median at all — below that, the tile says plainly it needs more data rather than showing an unreliable number.
- Low-confidence note
- A real value drawn from fewer than 15 items carries a "small sample, treat with caution" note; 30 or more items is treated as a reliable sample.
- Blocked tone
- Uses the same thresholds as Delivery Signals: 0 days is healthy, under 1 day is caution, 1 day or more needs attention.
Time periods throughout are calendar days and calendar weeks, not working days.
What you can click through to
- Reliability, Delivered and Carryover tiles open Sprint Summary for the exact sprint the tile describes.
- Median cycle time opens Cycle Time.
- Throughput/week, Time to start and Blocked open Delivery Signals.
- WIP opens WIP Monitor.
- "This sprint so far" and "The last six sprints" both open Sprint Summary.
- "Oldest in progress or blocked" opens Aging & Blocked; each row also links straight to the work item in Azure DevOps.
Tip
If the running sprint has nothing in it yet, "This sprint so far" and the six-sprint chart fall back to the last finished sprint instead, and say so explicitly rather than showing an empty chart.
Known limits
- Dashboard can never show a figure the view that owns it doesn't already compute — it has no calculations of its own.
- No print or CSV export on this page.
- One tile's read failing shows only that tile as unavailable; the rest of the page still renders. Only if every read fails does the whole page show a single error state.