Flow analytics

This panel is for a Scrum Master or delivery lead who wants to answer “how is work flowing?” for a team that doesn’t plan in sprints and story points, or wants a second read alongside a team that does. It works the same way whether the team runs on a sprint cadence or continuous flow, because it reads the same task history either way rather than depending on sprints or velocity.

Where this lives in the story

On the board, beneath the columns. The panel remembers whether you left it open or closed the last time you looked at this project, and it opens collapsed the first time, so it never adds friction for a contributor who doesn’t want it — it’s there when a Scrum Master or delivery lead wants the flow read, and out of the way otherwise.

What you see

Cumulative-flow diagram (CFD) — a chart most agile teams will recognize: a daily stacked area showing how many tasks sit in each board column (Backlog, To Do, In Progress, Review, Complete), with Complete drawn at the base. A widening band shows where work is piling up; a flattening Complete band shows work slowing down.
Weekly throughput — a bar chart of how many items the team completed each week. The team’s delivery heartbeat, independent of estimate size.
Cycle / lead-time percentiles — a strip of numbers for both cycle time (how long a task takes from when work actually starts on it to when it’s done) and lead time (how long from when a task is created to when it’s done). Both are shown as P50 / P80 / P95 — the time within which 50%, 80%, and 95% of tasks finished. Showing these percentiles instead of a single average means a few unusually slow tasks show up here instead of being hidden by the average.
Throughput forecast (continuous-flow boards only) — using the team’s recent weekly throughput, this estimates when the remaining backlog will be done, headlined as a P80 answer: “finish in ~N weeks — by <date>” — meaning there’s an 80% chance of finishing by that date or earlier. It gives a Kanban team a forward delivery date without sprints or velocity. When there isn’t yet enough completed history to make that estimate, the card says so rather than guessing.

Aggregate only — never individual

These numbers are team-private: only members of the team can see them, and the panel always reports flow for the team, never a per-person breakdown — there is no individual cycle-time leaderboard, by design. Someone who isn’t allowed to see these numbers sees a plain “not available” message, never blurred or partial numbers, and the panel makes clear to everyone who can see it that what they’re looking at is aggregate-only.

Where to find it in the app

Route: /projects/:projectId/board — expand the Flow analytics panel below the columns.
The throughput-forecast card appears only when the project’s board cadence is Continuous flow (Kanban).

For developers and integrators

Method	Endpoint	Purpose
`GET`	`/api/v1/projects/{id}/flow-metrics/?window={days}`	Cycle/lead-time percentiles, the daily CFD series, and the weekly throughput series — computed on read. `window` bounds the lookback.

The response is empty (with a flag noting the caller isn’t authorized to see it) for a reader who isn’t on the team. The throughput forecast is served by the same project forecast endpoint that powers the sprint forecast, distinguished by a forecast_basis value of "throughput".

ADR-0130 — methodology-neutral flow metrics (the computed-on-read flow read)
ADR-0137 — the board flow-analytics panel
ADR-0104 — privacy signals (the team-to-team flow_metrics audience)
ADR-0164 — board cadence (sprint vs continuous flow)

If you are…

A Scrum Master / delivery lead — read the CFD for where work piles up and the cycle-time P95 figure for predictability; both are more honest than a single velocity number.
Running a Kanban team — the throughput forecast is your delivery date: an 80%-confidence “by <date>” for the remaining backlog, refreshed as you complete work.
A contributor — leave the panel collapsed; nothing here tracks you individually, and the board works exactly the same whether it is open or closed.