Assignee Churn per Issue

High assignee churn per issue — multiple ownership changes on a single ticket — can indicate genuine ownership confusion, but it can also indicate deliberate accountability obscuring. If an issue changes hands frequently before being closed, it becomes harder to identify who was ultimately responsible for its resolution. This heatmap shows where per-issue churn is highest.

What you can conclude

• A dark cell at a specific project-and-type combination indicates that ownership of that type of work in that project is structurally unstable — a process clarification is needed.
• A project that is dark across all issue types has a portfolio-wide ownership accountability problem.
• A uniformly light heatmap indicates stable, predictable ownership patterns across all work categories.

How this chart works

Heatmap with projects on one axis and issue types on the other. Cell color encodes the average number of distinct assignee changes per issue for that combination. Darker cells indicate more churn.