How to analyze JIRA projects in GoodData - start your engines!
This article is about how to start with our GoodData workflow analytics. As you probably know (because you read this blog:), we made a plugin for Atlassian JIRA 4.2. JIRA is a very popular Issue tracking system, which allows you to track your business workflows, control development, maintain support requests or track all your warrior's requests for ammo in the upcoming 3rd world war :)
When you start with JIRA, you probably do not need GoodData analytics. Later on, your team gets overloaded (or underloaded !!) and understanding all the details of your workflows and JIRA processes is not a trivial task - but you have to control your business processes.
So, tralala, bells ringing, that is why we are here :-)
With our GoodData plugin, you can analyze all your important metrics, slice your views in many different dimensions and dive into your business processes data.
One terrible thing is that you have to build all necessary GoodData metrics on your own. At this time, we are not able to deploy metrics, reports or dashboards to your GoodData project. But, we will work on it! Meanwhile, try following these few configuration steps, and It will help you understand our data model :)
1) First of all, create your first metric, which measures the amount of ISSUEs
Navigate to "Manage > Data > Metrics > Create Metric > Custom metric" and create COUNT metric:
(it is useful to move the metric to a folder - i.e. "Counts").
The most important step is done!
2) Let's try to make first report!
Navigate to "Reports > Create Report". From "What" select your new count metric:
and from "How" select the attributes "usernameName" (to Left) and "projectKey" (on Top):
Press Done and create report. You have your "team load" report, that's it :)
You can than set-up Drill In on issueKey and switch table view to Stacked Bar Chart:
If you put your report on a Dashboard, you can drill to IssueKey by clicking on Issues count. If you click on the issueKey, GoodData automaticaly opens your JIRA appliance in separate browser window.
You can play with it very easily. Try to slice&dice by Projects, Statuses, creation date, etc. We will prepare more "how-tos" in the future, so stay tuned! Here are some of our sample reports:
"bird overview"
"team load BY Month"
"work-flow status BY assignees, variable BY date"
"our projects condition"
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