The Activity Workload Diagram demonstrates the distribution of work items across the Organization's Activities.  These metrics help organizations understand the trends in the work load across each of these activities. This helps organizations recognize work loads that are beyond that capacities of each of these functions. The Organization Analytics provide the same level of flexibility provided in the Board Analytics as well as the ability to include or exclude Boards from the calculations.

Accessing the Activity Workload Diagram

To access the Activity Workload Diagram, click on the Dashboard tab located in the top-level menu.

Toward the bottom of the page, click on Activities Distribution.

Setting the Diagram Options

The Activities Distribution provides multiple options that can be set that allow you to view the data from different perspectives and with different criteria.  After changing an options, you may click the Refresh Data button to regenerate the diagram using the new options.

Adding and Removing Boards

You may wish to remove Boards from the calculations within the Activities Distribution Diagram.  To do this, uncheck the Boards that you wish to exclude and select the Refresh Data button

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Adding and Removing Lanes

You many wish to view the diagram without all the Lanes included in the dataset. You may remove Lanes from the dataset by clicking on these Lane headers with the Board representation located below the diagram.

Lanes can be added back by clicking on the Lane header again.  Any individual Lane may be removed or you may remove all Lanes underneath a parent lane by clicking on the parent Lane header.

Rolling Up Lanes

You may also want to calculate the Activities Distribution Diagram at a less granular level. For this, the ability to rollup Lanes to the their parent Lane is provided.  To do this, click on the Rollup icon located in the parent Lane header.  This will aggregate the total queue sizes of the child lanes into the selected parent Lane.  To unroll the child lanes, click the Unroll icon within the Lane header.  You may roll up any of the child Lanes into their parent Lane at any level of the hierarchy.

Selecting the Date Range

You may focus in on a specific date range using the date fields located directly underneath the diagram. With these fields, you may manipulate the start and end dates either by manually inputting the date or by clicking the mini calendar located beside each field to open an expanded calendar.

Calculating Queue Size based on Card Size

LeanKit Kanban allows teams to specify the size value within a work item.  These Size values may represent any metric that your team uses to specify relative size of the work item.  These may be function points, use case points, or whatever unit of measurement that your team finds useful.  If your team is using the Size values to specify relative size of each work item, this metric may be more useful than the number of work items within a queue.  For these teams, LeanKit Kanban allows you to calculate the Activities Distribution Diagram queue sizes based on these sizes as opposed to the average queue size (number of work items within the queue).  To enable the option, simply click the "Calculate based on Card Size" option and refresh the graph data.  The graph will now calculate the queue size based on the size specified within the work item. Note that any work items that do not have a Size specified or have a Size of 0 (zero) will be considered with a size of 1(one) when calculating queue size.