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Analyzing the Project Backlog

Let us look at a simple scenario to understand how you can use the Work Item iCube to analyze your project backlog.

Andrew is a Project Manager who's managing multiple teams working on multiple projects.

As a Project Manager, he wants to understand how many work items are in the project backlog, and for how long. Identifying work items which have been in the backlog for a long duration not only helps him in bringing the reason for the delay to the fore, but also helps him in planning and placing his resources better. Analyzing the backlog enables him to:

• Re-organize teams and assign tasks to the right people
• Re-prioritize teams' efforts to reduce backlog
• Call out blockers, if any.

Generating the report

To analyze the project backlog, Andrew has to login to N360™ and perform the following tasks in the Work Item iCube of Create Lens:

1. From the GALLERY panel, select the desired visualization type here.
   In this example, Bar Chart has been used.
2. From the DATASETS panel:
   1. Drag the Work Item attribute into the Rows field of the EDITOR.
   2. Drag the Proposed Flag attribute into the Color By field.
   3. Drag the Avg Lead Time (Days) metric into the Columns field.

Here's an example backlog analysis displayed graphically:

Analyzing the report

Using the report, the Project Manager can do the following:

• View the amount of time work items have been in the backlog sorted by Priority.
• Re prioritize team's efforts to address work items that are long pending.