Weekly Assignment Volatility Index(2.5.6)

Total assignment activity tells you how busy a team is. The Volatility Index tells you something more specific: what share of that activity is reassignment — work being handed off again after it was already assigned. A high index means issues are rarely staying with the person they were first given to.

Rising volatility without rising total activity is the clearest signal of chronic ownership instability — the team is not getting better at making stable assignments, and that uncertainty has a direct impact on delivery speed.

What you can conclude

• A volatility index consistently above 30 indicates that ownership is not being established clearly at the point of assignment — work is passing through multiple hands before someone commits.
• A rising index alongside stable or falling total activity suggests the team is reassigning existing work more often, not just handling more volume.
• A declining index over time is evidence that ownership discipline is improving.

How this chart works

Dual-series line chart with total assignment events (filled area, left axis) and the Volatility Index (dashed line, right axis). Each project-week's index is the share of that project's assignment changes that are reassignments, on a 0 to 100 scale; the plotted line is the average of those per-project figures for the week, so a project with one assignment change counts as much as one with fifty.

Use the project and date filters to track volatility trends for a specific team.