Product Backlog Health Report is a custom report that can be generated for your product backlog to measure "health" of your backlog.
The health of backlog can be measured in following:
- How many issues are in "well defined" stage. It is not enough to have a backlog 1 liner entry, it is very important to define these features time to time, according to your organizational guidelines. Without which when the item is ready to picked up and worked on, it leads to idle time for team/developer with nothing to work on effectively.
- Entire set of these well defined items can be further estimated in backlog itself. Refer to <a href="/plan/estimate">Estimate</a> section for guidelines on estimating. Estimating helps measure backlog quantity interms of person days
- Backlog in Person Days Calculation - This is an approximate calculation that can help measure how healthy is your backlog
- Backlog Health Score - based on person days, a short health icon such as red, yellow, green can be shown for executive reports. (for eg: 0-3 sprints backlog -- RED, 3-6 sprints backlog YELLOW; >6 sprints backlog -- GREEN -- Each project can have its own custom formula. )
You can exclude the items in Active Release for this report.
Sample Backlog Health Report
| No of Issues | Defined Issues | Estimaion Points | In Months (EP/Velocity) |
Health Score |
| 12 | 10 | 178 | 8 sprints | GREEN |
Senior Management/Executives can use this report to get an high level view of all projects health.
Sample Backlog Details Report - Well Defined
| Epic ID | Status | Source Bucket | Description | Estimate |
| 100 | DEFINED | Customer Feedback | aak adkasdada | 34 |
| 101 | DEFINED | New Feature | add adasasdds | 55 |
| 102 | DEFINED | Innovation | asdda asdasdsd | 89 |
This report gives further drilldown from high level report to view details of backlog.