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 means issues are changing hands less often after assignment.

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.

The week in progress is shown at its value so far. Because the week is not yet complete, it covers only the assignment changes recorded so far and can move in either direction as the week closes.