Cumulative Flow Diagram for Jira

Cumulative Flow Diagram for Jira draws the chart that shows a delivery system rather than a list of tickets. Each band is one of your workflow statuses. The height of a band on any day is how many work items sat in that status that day. A band that widens as it moves right is a queue forming. A top band that flattens is work that stopped arriving. The vertical distance across the middle bands is work in progress, and the horizontal distance across them is roughly how long an item takes to cross the system. It is rebuilt by replaying the status transitions Jira already stores, so the diagram covers your real history from the first minute. Most cumulative flow apps start collecting on the day they are installed, which makes them useless for the first quarter, exactly when a team most wants to know whether things are getting better.