Metrics · Included with Pro
Agile metrics that build themselvesSee the bottleneck before it bites.
No report builder, no data entry: velocity, cumulative flow, and three lists of cards that need attention — overdue, blocking, and stuck — derived from how work actually moves.
Analytics without the chores
Just work the board
There's nothing to configure and no data to enter — metrics are derived from when cards enter and leave each stage, refreshed every 15 minutes. Retro boards are excluded, so ceremony activity never pollutes delivery data.
Read the trend
Velocity shows completed story points per period with a rolling 3-period average for forecasting; the cumulative flow diagram shows how many cards sit in each stage over time, so bottlenecks show up as widening bands.
Act on the outliers
Three attention lists turn the charts into a to-do queue: overdue cards, cards blocking others, and cards stuck for over a week — filter by assignee and click straight through to fix them.
Five views of delivery health
Velocity with a forecast line
Completed story points per period, overlaid with a rolling 3-period average that's complete across the whole visible window — the chart quietly fetches the lead-in data.
Cumulative flow diagram
Stacked stages over time with a crosshair tooltip — the classic bottleneck detector, drawn from your real board history.
Overdue cards
Unfinished work grouped into overdue and due-in-7-days, sorted soonest first — the deadline risk list.
Blocking cards
Cards that other work is waiting on, labeled "Blocks N cards" and sorted by blast radius — highlighted from three blocked cards up.
Stuck cards
Anything that hasn't moved in 7 days, with an alert once it's been stuck for 14 — drift made visible before it becomes a surprise.
Filters that match your cadence
Last 1–12 months, daily to monthly buckets, and a per-epic filter. Run two-week sprints? The bi-weekly bucket gives you an effective 3-sprint average.
The cumulative flow diagram, explained
A cumulative flow diagram counts every card by stage, every day, and stacks the counts — Done at the bottom, In progress, To do, and Backlog above it. Healthy flow has a shape: Done climbs steadily and the bands above it stay roughly parallel. A widening In progress band means work is entering faster than it is finishing — a bottleneck forming days before anyone feels it, exactly what the tooltip in this loop is pointing at. In AgileHero the diagram builds itself from real board movement: pick the period and interval, filter to a single epic, and hover any day for the exact counts.
Which agile metrics actually matter?
Two questions matter in agile delivery analytics: are we getting faster or slower, and where is work piling up? Velocity answers the first — as a trend with a rolling average, never a single-sprint number to weaponize. A cumulative flow diagram answers the second: when one band starts widening, that stage is the bottleneck, visible weeks before the deadline makes it obvious.
AgileHero computes both automatically from board activity — no report builder, no spreadsheet exports, no metrics chores. And because aggregate charts don't tell you which card to go fix, three attention lists sit next to them: overdue, blocking, and stuck. That's the difference between analytics you glance at and analytics you act on.
What is sprint velocity?
Sprint velocity is the amount of estimated work a team actually finishes per sprint — the sum of the story points on the cards that reached done. Tracked over a few sprints, it becomes the team's most useful planning number: if the last three sprints landed at 21, 18, and 24 points, committing to 40 next week is a conversation worth having before it fails.
There is no formula to run by hand. In AgileHero the velocity chart builds itself from real board movement: pick the interval that matches your sprint length, and each bar is the points your team completed in that period, with a rolling three-period average drawn across the whole window so one unusual sprint doesn't distort the trend. No spreadsheet, no report setup, no data entry — the chart is simply what happened.
A faster daily standup
The daily standup exists to answer one question: is anything in the way? The three attention lists answer it before anyone speaks. Overdue shows what slipped past its date, Blocking shows which cards are holding other work hostage, and Stuck shows what has sat in the same column too long — measured from real time-in-column history, not a guess.
Run the standup from those three lists instead of going around the room: the cards that need discussion are already on screen, each one click from its full context. Ten minutes becomes five, and the meeting ends on the work rather than the ritual.
Common questions
Are metrics free?
Metrics are part of Pro — and fully included in every 14-day trial. Read-only observers can view all five metric views too, so stakeholders get the dashboard without needing edit rights.
Do I need to log any data?
No. Velocity and cumulative flow are derived from real board movement — when cards enter and leave each stage — and refresh about every 15 minutes.
Does it work with sprints?
Metrics are bucketed by interval rather than a formal sprint entity: pick the bi-weekly bucket and a team on two-week sprints gets an effective 3-sprint rolling average.
What counts toward velocity?
Completed story points, taken from card estimates — so velocity is most meaningful for teams that estimate their cards (estimation poker is built in and free).
Is there a burndown chart?
Velocity and cumulative flow are the two charts we ship today. The cumulative flow diagram answers the same "are we on track" question continuously — you can see scope, progress, and bottlenecks in one picture rather than one sprint at a time.
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