Dashboards - Jira Tutorial

- [Presenter] In this video, we will discuss dashboards. We will describe dashboards, configure a dashboard, and display a dashboard as a wallboard. We've seen ways of visualizing work in JIRA. This includes boards, search, and reports. Here, we will discuss dashboards. A dashboard is a configurable view of the work of one or more of the projects. These dashboards can be personal or shared with the team, and dashboards are composed of gadgets. Here, we see a dashboard with four gadgets, a sprint health gadget, a sprint burndown gadget, an activity stream, and an "assigned to me" gadget. You can see buttons to the upper right, allowing you to edit the dashboard. Gadgets fall into one of several categories. You can display the work of JIRA issues. You can display charts, you can display gadgets that are optimized for wallboards as well as other gadgets. You can go to the Atlassian marketplace, select the "Dashboard gadgets" dropdown, and see more gadgets that you can add to dashboards. To add a gadget to a dashboard, you click the "Add gadget" button, and then you select the gadget from the list that's shown. Once you've added a gadget to the dashboard, you can select "Edit" from the More menu for the gadget. Here we are editing the sprint health gadget, and we're specifying which sprint board we want the gadget to show. This dashboard is currently not shared, but you can share it with other team members using the Add Shares section of this dialogue. Once you've created a dashboard, you can select "View as wallboard," and this will display the dashboard in a wallboard friendly manner. For instance, this can be shown on a TV in a room. This acts as an information radiator for the team, improving the team's shared understanding of the projects. Here's a review of what we've discussed. Dashboards display the work of the projects. Dashboards can be shared or used personally. Gadgets display a portion of a dashboard. Dashboards can be shown as a wallboard to radiate information.