Jira Dashboards in Confluence Going Where The Leaders Are

Jira Dashboards in Confluence Going Where The Leaders Are https://www.oldstreetsolutions.com/jira-dashboards-in-confluence If you manage teams in Jira, Jira dashboards are at the heart of everything you do. That’s why you should consider making dashboards in Confluence, too.But you can’t make a Jira dashboard in Confluence… can you?Let’s say you’re a software team practicing Scrum software development. Your Scrum Masters use Jira dashboards for sprint planning, daily standups, demos of work completed in sprints, retros, and reporting to leadership.The main thing your leaders want to know is whether there are any impediments, i.e. anything blocked or at risk that would require them to allocate extra resources or address a production problem. But senior managers don’t normally work in Jira, and yet they need to see Jira reports to understand these impediments. Often, where you will find those executives is Confluence. So, to make sure they know what the Jira teams are doing, you can recreate your Jira dashboards in Confluence.Because Jira and Confluence are both Atlassian tools, they’re super-easy to integrate so that you can report on Jira issues on Confluence pages. This enables you to recreate your dashboards on a Confluence page. You can use preconfigured native chart macros like Sprint Health, Sprint Burndown, and Average Age of Issues. And you can use Custom Jira Charts for Confluence for everything else you’d like to show. Custom Jira Charts for Confluence is the mirror image sister app of Custom Charts for Jira, which enables users to build from scratch or a template any kind of chart they like out of their Jira data. What’s particularly useful is that you can do it right there on the Confluence page, rather than in a separate platform.Your VPs and directors might want to keep these Confluence dashboards open on one monitor as an information radiator, so they can continuously monitor things like sprint health and at-risk projects across all teams in real time. Then they can make sure, for example, that if a certain team is behind, that team needs to be left alone.Using Confluence for better data storytellingSome people who do reporting forget that it’s not enough to show your audience a bunch of pretty bar charts without any context or explanation. Once you’re done with the data visualization, the charts themselves, the next step is data storytelling, crafting a narrative that those charts demonstrate.One of our customers started making Jira dashboards on Confluence pages, and then they realized they could use Confluence to make better, more detailed data stories. So they started making “Updates from the Scrum Master” and “Sprint Goals” pages in Confluence, using the project templates, to provide an explanation for what is going on in the charts. For example, a 2D stacked bar chart built with Custom Jira Charts for Confluence can spotlight items that are at risk or may not be in progress yet, and the Updates from the Scrum Master notes can explain why the team is so far behind on them.This customer started to prefer reporting in Confluence because there’s no native way of embedding a Confluence page like the “Updates” ones in a Jira dashboard. But they eventually found a way to do it with Amazon Web Services, and now their Jira teams have the same level of clarity about their reports.