Reviewing sprints and giving shoutouts

When reviewing team performance, some key metrics to consider are team happiness, committed versus delivered, and predictability. While burndowns and velocity are important for teams to review in Jira, the Jira Align sprint metrics (M1) report provides scrum masters, RTEs, team leads, and others with a way to see sprint-by-sprint metrics for an entire program increment. It's a useful report to review with teams during sprint planning or retrospectives. It helps teams see how they are progressing toward team and program goals for the PI. The focus of the report is on team delivery and predictability, not on velocity or comparing teams to one another. To get the most out of this report, teams must use the ceremonies within the Jira Align meetings module, as discussed earlier.

To begin, go to the navigation bar and select Teams | Track | Sprint Metrics (M1). This will open the M1 report, as shown in the following screenshot. The report can...