Pulse Page

Understanding important changes over time at a glance

Metric Trends on the Pulse Page highlight the insights with the largest recent change, to highlight where focus is needed, and where efforts to improve are showing the biggest impact.

It's important to understand not just your current metrics, but how these compare to the past. The Pulse Page provides this story at a glance by showing both the recent and previous values (by default, from the most recent 12 weeks and the value from the previous period that spans the same amount of time).

Pulse Page Customization

By default, Metric Trends highlight the insights with the largest recent change. Use the Options menu to pin any insight so it always appears.

When Include Dynamic Insights is enabled, the top 4 largest changing insights will always be shown.  Turn this off in order to only show the pinned insights.

AI Investment Summaries

The pulse page also helps teams understand their top investments across a period of time. These tiles show the fraction of the team's time invested in a specific area, how that has changed since the previous period, and AI summarizations of what the work was specifically about.

Investment summaries are generated by leveraging Jira/ADO issue metadata with a privately running LLM (Large Language Model). The LLM runs on Amazon Bedrock, and data sent is not stored, used for training, nor shared with any third parties. As with all AI products, these descriptions may be incomplete or wrong. Please verify all important information.

These summaries give leaders the ability see what teams are working on at a glance, without needing to ask the team lead — especially for work that isn't linked to Epics or up to parent initiatives. 

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