Great Gadgets – Dashboard Widgets, Analytics, Agile Charts & KPIs

Great Gadgets is a powerful Azure DevOps extension that enables teams to build rich, data-driven dashboards for tracking projects, releases, and key performance metrics — all in one centralized view.

Designed to support any delivery methodology — Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®, scaled Agile, or traditional workflows — Great Gadgets offers a comprehensive set of visual and analytical tools to help teams monitor progress, forecast outcomes, and continuously improve delivery efficiency.

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Flow Metrics & Delivery Insights

Great Gadgets gives your teams everything they need to understand and optimize delivery flow. Whether you are a Kanban team, a customer support or ITSM team, or any other delivery-focused team, the extension makes it easy to track critical metrics such as cycle time, lead time, time-in-status, throughput, cumulative flow, WIP aging, control charts, and more.

By turning raw Azure DevOps data into clear, actionable insights, Great Gadgets exposes bottlenecks, surfaces aging work, SLA breaches, and helps teams achieve more predictable and reliable delivery.

Progress Tracking & ETA Forecasting

Great Gadgets provides everything you need to track progress and forecast outcomes for projects of any size—from simple initiatives to complex, multi-team deliveries.

Widgets such as the cross-team release burndown chart let you monitor release progress in real time and forecast ETA based on current team velocity. More advanced widgets, including pivot tables, pivot charts, and formula widgets, help you visualize work completion from multiple perspectives and adapt insights to your specific reporting needs.

Key Numbers & Custom Metrics in Real Time

Great Gadgets keeps you fully informed with instant access to the metrics that matter most for your projects. Track key project numbers such as completed vs. planned work, remaining effort, SLA compliance, blocked items, and more—all in real time.

With fully customizable widgets, dashboards, and formula-based calculations, you can tailor your views to reflect your team’s priorities, quickly spot risks, and make data-driven decisions that ensure your projects stay on track.

Key Features

• Advanced Dashboard Visualizations - Build rich, interactive Azure DevOps dashboards using a comprehensive set of configurable widgets.

• Comprehensive Agile Metrics - Monitor burndown, burnup, velocity, throughput, cycle time, lead time, and other key agile and flow metrics in real time.

• Custom KPIs & Calculated Metrics - Create custom KPIs using formulas, queries, and math expressions. Aggregate fields, calculate percentages and ratios, and model metrics that match your workflow.

• Scales Across Teams and Projects - Ideal for Agile, Kanban, Scrum, Service Desk, SAFe®, and operational teams. Analyze metrics at the team level or roll them up across multiple teams and projects.

• Native Azure DevOps Integration - Runs directly inside Azure DevOps dashboards with no data manual data synchronization, or complex configuration required. Install and start gaining insights immediately.

Widgets offered

Great Gadgets - offers an extensive collection of widgets to provide complete visibility into your projects and delivery performance:

• Release Burndown Burnup Chart (with Forecast) - Track cross-team or cross-project progress and forecast estimated completion dates (ETA).

• Formula Gadget - Display the results of basic formulas such as COUNT, AVERAGE, or SUM applied to fields from a query. Visualize results as numbers, value-based colored indicators, gauge charts, or 5-star ratings.

• Advanced Formula Widget - Build simple to complex formulas that combine data from multiple queries. Display results as numbers, percentages, or ratios for advanced insights.

• Pivot Table & Pivot Chart - Create multi-field statistics with counts, percentages, or summed values. Visualize data as tables, heatmaps, or a variety of chart types—similar to Microsoft Excel.

• Kanban Velocity / Throughput - Measure how much work your team delivers over time and identify delivery trends.

• Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) - Visualize work-in-progress over time and analyze flow load and flow distribution.

• Time in Status - Identify workflow bottlenecks by analyzing how long work items spend in each state and where optimization is needed.

• Cycle Time Trend - Track delivery speed over time and view average cycle time or lead time trends.

• Control Chart - Analyze work items by cycle time or lead time to identify outliers and potential SLA breaches.

• Histogram Chart - View the distribution of cycle time or lead time and quickly identify how many items exceeded SLA thresholds.

• WIP Aging Chart - Monitor work items by age to identify stalled items and those approaching SLA breaches.

• WIP Run Chart - Track work in progress over time to detect WIP limit breaches and assess whether your team has reached a sustainable work pace.

• Countdown - Display the remaining time until an upcoming event, such as a product launch or team activity.

• Regional Clock - Show the current time and date at a selected location to support distributed teams.

Ideal For

• Agile Teams, Scrum Masters, RTEs, and Product Owners who want to enhance delivery visibility with actionable agile and flow metrics.
• Service Desk and Support Teams who want to track SLAs, throughput, and operational performance with clarity.
• Project Managers and Analysts who need advanced reporting, insights, and forecasting to support data-driven decisions.

About StonikByte

Great Gadgets is developed and fully supported by StonikByte, a company specialized in building extensions and applications across multiple platforms. The company is certified under ISO/IEC 27001 security management standard.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us at support@stonikbyte.com or submit a ticket through our support portal.