Work Item Dependency
The Work Item Dependency dataset offers valuable insights into the relationships and dependencies between various work items within a planning level or portfolio. It plays a key role in managing and visualizing how tasks, features, user stories, and other items rely on each other, enabling teams to spot bottlenecks, risks, and workflow challenges. By revealing how delays or progress in one work item impacts the overall project, this dataset improves visibility and supports more effective planning and resource allocation.
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You need to link this dataset to the work item base dataset to use this dataset.
You can use this approach to obtain details of work item dependencies:
- To get the count of the upstream dependencies of a work item, blend the work item attribute from any other datasets with the downstream work item attribute.
- To get the count of the downstream dependencies of a work item, blend the work item attribute from any other datasets with the upstream work item attribute.
The following are the components of this dataset:
| Attribute Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Asset type | Type of the asset link. The examples are epic and story. |
| Downstream planning level | Planning level of downstream work item |
| Downstream work item | Number of the downstream work item |
| Downstream work item name | Name of the downstream work item |
| Downstream work item status | Status of the downstream work item |
| Sys_source | Unique identifier for the source |
| Upstream planning level | Planning level of upstream work item |
| Upstream work item | Number of the upstream work item |
| Upstream work item name | Name of the upstream work item |
| Upstream work item status | Status of the upstream work item |
| Metric Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Number of downstream dependencies defects | The count of defects in work items that are dependent on the completion of other tasks, highlighting potential risk areas in the downstream workflow. |
| Number of downstream dependencies stories | The count of stories in work items that is dependent on the completion of other tasks, highlighting potential risk areas in the downstream workflow. |
| Number of upstream dependencies defects | The count of defects in work items that is dependent on the completion of other tasks, highlighting potential risk areas in the upstream workflow. |
| Number of upstream dependencies stories | The count of stories in work items that is dependent on the completion of other tasks, highlighting potential risk areas in the upstream workflow. |