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The Supporting Report for Individual Contributors
The Supporting Report for Individual Contributors

Learn about the Supporting Tasks report.

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Written by Dan Wain
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This Supporting Report consolidates key metrics associated with Supporting Tasks to provide a holistic view of your supporting activities.

The Supporting Tasks report can be accessed via the side-bar menu under Reports > Workload, and then toggling to the 'Supporting' tab:

As with most Bramble reports, this dashboard can be run over any date-range.


Key Supporting Metrics at a Glance

The report prominently displays two essential metrics to give you an immediate snapshot of the time you've invested in Supporting Tasks:

  1. Daily Supporting - the daily average time on Supporting Tasks over the selected date-range

  2. Total Supporting Hours - the total time on Supporting Tasks over the selected date-range

These metrics are designed to provide a clear, intuitive understanding of your supporting efforts.


Interactive Visualizations

  1. A Typical Day

    • Bar chart displaying daily supporting hours by a customizable area (e.g. Work location, Weekday)

  2. A Typical Weekday

    • Heat map displaying daily supporting hours by weekday and a customizable area/grouping

    • Understand patterns in supporting activities across different categories and days of the week

  3. Supporting Hours Trend

    • Line graph tracking supporting hours on a daily basis

    • Spot patterns and trends in supporting activities over time

  4. Types of Supporting Work

    • Pie chart breaking down supporting hours by category

    • Easily visualize the distribution of effort across different types of supporting work

  5. Time by selected area

    • Bar chart showing supporting hours by selected areas

    • Quickly identify which supporting activities are consuming the most time


Filtering and Customization

Each visualization includes options to expand, filter, or customize the view, allowing you to dive deeper into specific aspects of your supporting data. There are two ways to customize the report:

  • Apply a filter to the all elements of the report by simply clicking on '+Add filter' and selecting your preference:

  • Any chart which has a cog icon in the top-right corner allows you to filter the view a variety of different ways. Simply click on the cog and select your preferred view from the drop-down:

....then you will see options pop-up. Here is a screenshot of the options associated with the 'A Typical Weekday' chart:


Leveraging the Supporting Report

With these new features, you can:

  • Analyze patterns in supporting work across different days and work location

  • Track trends in supporting hours over time

  • Understand the distribution of supporting work across different categories

  • Identify which supporting tasks are the most time-consuming

The Supporting Report will provide you with valuable insights to optimize your supporting activities and overall performance. As always, we welcome your feedback and are here to support you in making the most of these new features.

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