Momentum
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The aim of momentum is to show you at a glance what work is moving versus stalling or regressing. Momentum complements the progress bar by showing how progress has changed with the latest work activity.
Each time an issue is added to or completed for a given body of work, we look at how this changes the ratio of completed issues to open ones. We then compare that new ratio to what the ratio was prior to the change.
For example, let's say an objective has eight open issues and two completed ones. Now another issue is completed. With no change in the number of open issues, momentum would show an increase of 10 percent. The prior ratio was two of ten issues completed (20 percent); the new ratio is three of ten issues completed (30 percent).
Let's use this same example to look at how momentum might decrease. Say that when the third issue completes, we also find the number of open issues has increased—maybe from eight to seventeen. The prior ratio was two of ten issues completed (20 percent); now the new ratio is three of twenty issues completed (15 percent). In this case, we reflect a momentum decrease of 5 percent.
The momentum states are:
Arrow up: Progress increased from X% to Y% since the last activity date.
Arrow down: Progress decreased from Y% to X% since since the last activity date.
Arrow flat: Progress is flat since the last activity date.
"Scoping": No work yet completed. For any objective with a start date in the future, momentum will always show Scoping.
Clock + days: No activity for the period indicated (minimum seven days). For any objective with a start date, we use that as the start of clock instead of last activity date. This means that for objectives with start dates, the earliest you would see the idle indicator is start date + 7 days.
