Highly efficient and effective workflows are the hallmark of high performing teams. Often, team’s intuitively understand where inefficiencies may exist, but don’t have the proof to align stakeholders and take necessary action required to unblock their process. Umano created Time in Status to provide teams with visibility over their workflow and the lifecycle of their issues. This helps teams maintain a highly efficient pipeline of work, spot and remove blockers in real-time and take broader action to improve or build highly effective processes with their stakeholders.

Time in Status is the time spent in each status for issues assigned to an interval.

Understanding your team’s Time in Status is important to ensure you’re maintaining, if not improving your team’s workflow. When time in a status increases beyond what’s expected or usual for your team, you can take immediate action to understand the bottleneck and remediate. When viewing patterns over time, Teams are empowered to redefine workflow and process improvements themselves, and with stakeholders. Understanding and maintaining an efficient workflow increases your team’s completion rate and feeling of being in flow.

A lower Time in Status is better. This indicates a faster delivery workflow across the lifecycle of an issue from creation to completion.

Time in status is measured by identifying when each issue assigned to an interval moves between statuses. TeamX measures the average time spent in each status, for all issues assigned to the interval.

For each issue, TeamX surfaces the time spent in a particular status as it progresses through its lifecycle from creation to completion. TeamX also overlays your team’s interval timeline to the time in status timeline, highlighting where an issue’s status was in a status in a current or prior interval.

Activities that contribute to and influence Time in Status include all issues assigned to an interval.

Practices that influence your team’s Time in Status include: