Understanding the Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)

The number of work items in your To Do list will not be altered unless a work item has been added or deleted. It will always show the number of work items that have passed through it.

Here's a small example of how this report works.

Imagine your sprint has 10 work items in your To Do status, 0 in In Progress and 0 in Done. The report would show the same when you generate it. If you move two work item to In Progress, the count of the To Do will remain the same however In Progress will be 2 and Done will be 0. If you reopen an item and move it to In Progress, the To do count will still remain the same, since it's not a new item.

Benefits

• Track the progress of each status on a daily basis.
  
• Know which status holds the most work items.
  
• Work to move items from To-do to Done.
  
• Identify bottlenecks that slow down the progress of the sprint.
  

Viewing the chart

1. Navigate to Reports.
   
2. Choose Cumulative Flow from the Sprints Report  section.
   
3. The X-axis represents the Date, and Y-axis represents the Number of work items.
   
4. The legends show the statuses of the sprint's work items.
   
5. Select a sprint name to view its cumulative flow diagram.
   

View sprint

1. Choose a sprint from  Sprints.
   
2. Select the statuses and click Get.
   

Compare status

1. Click Compare in the upper-right corner.
   
2. Select the statuses.
   
3. Click Get to compare the progress of the statuses.