Visualising Jira data for planning accuracy

Abstract

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is commonly used to organise software development in large companies. Jira is a project management tool that helps software development companies to track, plan, and analyse their work processes. Despite its flexibility, Jira lacks the functionality to monitor the planning accuracy of teams when SAFe is used. This thesis proposes a dashboard to help companies using SAFe to assess initial sprint planning accuracy based on the data extracted from Jira. The application can calculate the planning accuracy for teams and break it down to the feature level to give detailed insight into teams plans and outcomes. The dashboard was well received by the test group and simplified their job.