Problematic Tickets gadget

Problematic tickets gadget is able to identify issues in the tickets the team is working on. By default, it takes into consideration tickets from the last week, but it can be adjusted in the gadget configuration. The gadget displays the tickets sorted by the ones with the most serious problems discovered in them. The gadget also displays icons presenting what problems were discovered in each of the tickets. Click the icon to get a detailed description of the problem containing an explanation of why we consider the given issue a problem, how to fix it and get some useful tips and materials.

Each issue is assigned a severity level (impact), that is configurable in the gadget options. The impact levels are: critical, major and minor.

The issues that the gadget can identify are the following.

IssueNotes
Ticket is in progress, but without an assigneeImpact configurable
Lack of descriptionImpact configurable
Short description (less than 100 characters)Impact configurable
Lack of estimation (only if time is logged)Impact configurable
Exceeded estimate by: days/hours/minutesImpact configurable by ratio of logged time to original estimate
Long time without any update in open ticketImpact configurable by number of days without any update
Long time since start progressImpact configurable by number of days since starting progress
Past due dateImpact configurable by number of days past due date

If you are a dashboard administrator, you can also configure what impact for ticket overall problematic each rule will have. Learn how to configure Problematic Tickets.

You can fix some of the issues thanks to Quick Fix module (Cloud only).


Sample gadget view:




If there are no problematic tickets, there will be the following message: