Phlogiston

Phlogiston generates reports from Phabricator data, inspired by Scrum Burnup charts. Phlogiston reports show the size of project backlogs, the amount of work completed, and historical trends. With sufficient data in Phabricator, Phlogiston can forecast completion dates, and identify projects that are unlikely ever to finish; forecasts attempt to indicate their own (un)reliability. Reports can divide appropriately tagged Phabricator tasks into different categories and report by category. "The name comes from the Ancient Greek φλογιστόν phlogistón (burning up)" and is (probably) pronounced like "FLOW", not "FLOG".
 * Live Phlogiston reports, updated daily
 * Beta/backup Phlogiston reports, updated daily

Questions Phlogiston can help to answer
Caveat: Phlogiston is strictly limited by the quality of data available in Phabricator. The effort required to generate sufficiently detailed data in Phabricator may exceed the value of the reports.

Phlogiston reports by question
 * What have we finished?
 * How much work remains until we reach a goal?
 * How long will that take?
 * How has the scope of a goal changed since we started?
 * What have we been working on?
 * How much of our recent work has not been high-priority work?
 * How much has not been relevant to quarterly goals?
 * What bottlenecks exist in our work processes?

Guide to Phlogiston Reports
All Phlogiston reports are provided in duplicate, one based on Points and one based on Count. Teams not using points should ignore points reports; teams using Points should consider both reports in combination.


 * Index
 * Report metadata
 * Forecast
 * Combined Burnup
 * Unzoomed Burnup
 * Per-milestone
 * Per-milestone Burnup
 * Velocity
 * Forecast
 * Combined Velocity
 * Completed Work
 * Core vs Strategic

Configuring Reports

 * Configuring Phabricator to be reportable
 * Configuring Phlogiston

Installation and Operation

 * To set up Phlogiston for your own Phabricator instance, independently of WMF, see README.md.
 * Running Phlogiston
 * Adjusting a report [forthcoming]

Design

 * Data Model
 * Data Loading Model
 * Forecasting Model

Links

 * Source Code