Board stats

Boards are good at telling you what is happening now and bad at telling you what has been happening. There is now a stats view that answers the second question.

• Throughput and cycle time — how much is finishing, and how long it takes.
• Work in progress — how much is open per stage, and whether that number is drifting upward.
• Age distribution — where the old things are, which is usually a more useful question than how many things there are.
• Contributors and review activity — who is opening work and who is reviewing it, which are not the same list and are worth seeing side by side.

The charts read from state transitions we record as issues move, so this gets more useful the longer a board has been connected. Every chart follows the active theme, including the high-contrast one.

A board with a lot of stages gets a chart with a lot of slices, so the distribution charts cap at the eight largest and group the rest as "Other" — a pie chart with twenty wedges is a decoration, not a measurement.