Quality & Delivery Monitor

A work item & bug tracking dashboard widget for Azure DevOps — built for teams that run a shared, delivery backlog and need a single management view of quality and release readiness.

Severity, category and reopen status are derived from tags and resolution reason, not the Severity/Priority fields, so the numbers stay accurate even when those fields are left at defaults.

What it shows

• Six KPIs (RAG): Open bugs · Blocker+Critical · Awaiting QA verify · Reopened/retest · Invalid rate · Net flow (24h)
• Release burndown — open bug backlog by day
• Severity mix (tag-based), Fix effectiveness (Fixed vs As-Designed / Not-a-Bug / Duplicate / Reopened)
• team workload (to-fix vs awaiting verification), SLA ageing
• Data-quality panel — severity-field hygiene, missing tags, unassigned, no-iteration
• Drill-down grid with deep links into Azure Boards; click any chart to cross-filter

Highlights

• Live data via WIQL + batched REST using the dashboard's own token — no PAT, no stored secret
• Light / dark toggle in the widget header, remembered per viewer; default theme configurable
• Current project only — auto-scoped to the dashboard's project; fully resizable up to full-width. Configurable lookback window, burndown window, SLA thresholds and release date
• On-prem friendly — trends reconstructed from Created/Resolved/Closed dates (no Analytics OData required)

Configure

Add the widget to a dashboard, click the gear, and set project scope, lookback, SLA thresholds (Blocker / Critical / High / Medium days) and default theme. Each viewer sees only work items they already have permission to read.

Permissions

Runs as the signed-in user with the vso.work (read work items) scope. No service account required.

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