This article gives you a quick overview of what's included your team's Macro Cycle Tracker, the tool to help you measure, track visualise insights into how your team is working and improving over a month, quarter, four month term or any other defined longer-term period.
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A snapshot view of your team's current macro cycle performance (average of every completed sprint or Kanban increment within the cycle so far) vs either your teaem's Peak performance profile or any prior macro cycle.
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Performance is mapped across 25 agile metrics, showcasing your team's Design, Build, Review and Engagement practices. Each metric is mapped to an agility outcome, such as speed, progress or predictability. This anchors each metric into an outcome you're focussed on improving, and provides a 'why' to measuring that aspect of your way of working. ojo™ highlights major improvements and declines this Cycle to the comparison set you've selected (Peak or any prior cycle) to accelerate where you might focus your inspect and adapt practices.
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For each metric tracked in Umano, teams can zoom into a Metric Chart to see how that aspect of their performance has changed over the cycle. Metric performance can also be plotted against your selected comparison period. Beneath your chart, key performance aspects are highlighted including your current metric score, your usual score and your Peak score. If your team uses Playbooks (available in Umano's Master Plan) and has set a metric Goal, that too is displayed, along with the number of times the team has 'hit' the goal during the cycle.
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Read more about your Active Cycle Metric Charts below.
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Example of Macro Chart
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By now, you will be familiar with how Umano visualises your team's performance within its core feature, the Active Cycle Tracker. If you would like to familiarise yourself more with the Tracker reporting format, you can read more here.
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The main differences between the Active and Macro Cycle Tracker Reports are in the following elements:

Unlike the Active Cycle Tracker which benchmarks your current Sprint or increment performance with your usual (Rolling Median), the Macro Cycle Tracker benchmarks the average of all completed sprints / increments for the quarter to date, relative to the equivalent average for any prior Macro Cycle, or your team's Peak.
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To compare this Cycle's performance with any prior Cycle, select which time period you'd like to compare with. In this illustrative example, the workspace is set to track quarters as its Macro Cycle.

Another option Umano offers is to compare your current cycle's performance with your 'Peak'. The 'Peak' set is Umano's view of when you as a team are performing at your best, as defined by the combination of your Completion Rate, Throughput and Stability scores for Design & Build category, Defect Rate, Rework Rate and Review Rate scores for Review category and Communication Balance, Responsiveness and Team Collaboration scores for Engagement category.
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Run Rates are the two shaded values listed beneath the Current Cycle and Comparison Cycle Titles, and are an indicator of how sustainable and consistent the team's practices are, for each of the Current Cycle and Comparison Cycle scores. For example, within the given cycle, how long were the team able to maintain this level of performance.
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The Run Rate for the current cycle is calculated by taking the percentage of time within the current cycle interval that the team has performed at their average, as calculated from the combination of Completion Rate, Throughput and Stability metric scores for Design & Build category, Defect Rate, Rework Rate and Review Rate scores for Review category and Communication Balance, Responsiveness and Team Collaboration scores for Engagement category.
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For the Peak Run Rate, the calculation comes from the highest combination of Completion Rate, Throughput and Stability metric scores for Design & Build category, Defect Rate, Rework Rate and Review Rate scores for Review category and Communication Balance, Responsiveness and Team Collaboration scores for Engagement category.
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