Reporting for the Kanban team

GreenHopper provides the following reporting tools and charts available for Kanban teams which can help them in monitoring and continuous improvement:

Cumulative Flow Diagram

To view the cumulative flow diagram, select Report mode and click on Cumulative Flow Diagram.

The cumulative flow diagram will display the incoming work which still needs to be done, work still in progress, and work that is already finished. Balancing the work that still needs to be done and controlling the work in progress can clearly show if a team is capable of handling all the incoming work or when the team will be able to finish the piled-up work.

The detailed cumulative flow diagram has already been covered in previous chapters.

Control chart

To view the cumulative flow diagram, select the Report mode and click on Control Chart.

For Kanban teams, the cycle time is very important. Analyzing the cycle time helps the team to focus on the bottleneck in the whole process flow. Reducing the cycle...