Requirement Count

What is this metric?

The number of delivered requirements or features.

Why is it important?

1. Based on historical data, establish a baseline of the delivery capacity of a single iteration to improve the organization and planning of R&D resources.
2. Evaluate whether the delivery capacity matches the business phase and demand scale. Identify key bottlenecks and reasonably allocate resources.

Which dashboard(s) does it exist in

• Jira
• GitHub

How is it calculated?

This metric is calculated by counting the number of delivered issues in type "REQUIREMENT" in the given data range.

Data Sources Required

This metric relies on the issues collected from Jira, GitHub, or TAPD.

Transformation Rules Required

This metric relies on the 'type-requirement' configuration in Jira, GitHub or TAPD transformation rules to let DevLake know what CI builds/jobs can be regarded as Requirements.

SQL Queries

If you want to see a single count, run the following SQL in Grafana

  select 
    count(*) as "Requirement Count"
  from issues i
    join board_issues bi on i.id = bi.issue_id
  where 
    i.type = 'REQUIREMENT'
    and i.status = 'DONE'
    -- this is the default variable in Grafana
    and $__timeFilter(i.created_date)
    and bi.board_id in ($board_id)

If you want to see the monthly trend, run the following SQL

  SELECT
    DATE_ADD(date(i.created_date), INTERVAL -DAYOFMONTH(date(i.created_date))+1 DAY) as time,
    count(distinct case when status != 'DONE' then i.id else null end) as "Number of Open Issues",
    count(distinct case when status = 'DONE' then i.id else null end) as "Number of Delivered Issues"
  FROM issues i
    join board_issues bi on i.id = bi.issue_id
    join boards b on bi.board_id = b.id
  WHERE 
    i.type = 'REQUIREMENT'
    and i.status = 'DONE'
    and $__timeFilter(i.created_date)
    and bi.board_id in ($board_id)
  GROUP by 1

How to improve?

1. Analyze the number of requirements and delivery rate of different time cycles to find the stability and trend of the development process.
2. Analyze and compare the number of requirements delivered and delivery rate of each project/team, and compare the scale of requirements of different projects.
3. Based on historical data, establish a baseline of the delivery capacity of a single iteration (optimistic, probable and pessimistic values) to provide a reference for iteration estimation.
4. Drill down to analyze the number and percentage of requirements in different phases of SDLC. Analyze rationality and identify the requirements stuck in the backlog.