Overview
The blocking work item metric is used for identifying the trend of work items that blocking you from making a
progress. It can help you to identify the road blocks and focus on removing them so that the team
can move forward.
This metric is useful when there are multiple teams working together and lot of collaboration needed because of
existence of interdependency among the various tasks teams are working on.
Measurement Method
Total number of planned work Items in iteration
Total number of blocking work items in iteration.
Measurement Analysis
You can use the trend chart to observe the growth of blocking work items overtime. The number of blocking work items
should apporach zero as much as possible. Team should pay attention to find out the cause of blocking when the number
of blocking work items remains high. You can also generate the report for blocking work items and view since when they
are blocked, to further plan the corrective action.
When there are multiple teams working together collaboratively or high dependency tasks, it is a good idea to create a
dependency diagram to try to avoid the road blocking in the critical path or try to remove the blocking as soon as
possible.
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