Tasks In Progress
Activity Volume
Counts the number of tasks that moved to In Progress during the selected period.
💡 Like opening new browser tabs, every task started is a new tab open in your team's mental workspace.
What It Measures
Counts the number of tasks that moved to In Progress during the selected period.
Why It Matters
Understanding your commitment load and how much work you started
Identifying when work-in-progress levels spike
How It's Calculated
Counts each status transition to In Progress in the date range.
COUNT(status_transitions WHERE new_status = in_progress AND timestamp BETWEEN measure_from AND measure_to)Concrete Example
If 15 tasks moved to In Progress this sprint, that is your work intake rate, compare with tasks completed to see if your WIP is growing.
What Does a Healthy Score Look Like?
Should roughly match tasks completed per period to avoid WIP accumulation.
Healthy
Within 20% of your tasks completed count
Watch Out
30–50% more than tasks completed
Needs Attention
More than double your completion rate, work is piling up
What Moves This Metric?
Goes up when…
More work being started across the team simultaneously
New initiatives and epics kicking off in the same period
Reactive work from unplanned incidents or requests
Goes down when…
Team limiting WIP intentionally using Kanban principles
Fewer tasks being accepted or created in that period
Finishing existing work before pulling new items
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