How many tickets the team finishes each week. The line is the 4-week average, so you can see the pace through busy and quiet weeks.
New tickets created vs tickets finished each week. When blue stays above green, the backlog is growing.
Average Ticket Score of tickets created each week: a clear title (25), a description with real substance (45) and proper labelling, meaning type, project and priority (30). Higher means tickets QA and the QA agent can verify against the code.
How many tickets created in this range fall in each Ticket Score band.
Share of merged pull requests each week that are linked to a Linear ticket (via Linear's GitHub link or ENGG-123 in the PR title or branch). Each developer's PRs count from 27 Jul 2026, when the team adopted Linear, or from their own first ticket if later.
Cycle time is start → done; lead time is created → done. Medians, with the time 85% of tickets finish within.
Median time tickets spend in each workflow state. Long orange bars are waiting time: work queued for PR, review or testing.
Tickets waiting in Backlog and Prioritised Backlog at the end of each week, and how old today's backlog is.
How fast Urgent and High tickets get started, and how much work is started the same day it's created (unplanned work).