Metrics and Metrics Settings

Ticket Scope

Choose your sprint and see how the scope of that sprint changed, seeing added and removed tickets each day

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

How is Rolling Average calculated?

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Created pull requests

The number of pull requests created on your code repositories

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Key Kanban Metrics on Plandek

An overview of effective Kanban Metrics and how to use them on Plandek

Written by Rachel Reyes
Updated this week

Filters

Decide the data you do and don't want to see to make each metric specific to your context and need

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Mean Time To Restore

See the mean time it takes to restore a service after an incident is created in your incident management system

Written by Luke Thomas
Updated over a week ago

Change Failure Rate

Identify the percentage of deployments which fail and the overall risk this poses to development

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Backlog Health

Understand how healthy your backlog is and if your change pipeline is in the correct state to support delivery

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Average Duration

Highly flexible metric that can be used to calculate response times along with MTTR using ticket data.

Written by Luke Thomas
Updated over a week ago

Code Cycle Time

Core to your engineering and delivery capability is the Pull Request process, and this metric will give you key insight into its efficiency

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Breakdowns

Slice each metric the way you want to compare and contrast data trends across a large variety of factors

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Metrics settings overview

Learn how to harness the power of Plandek through our robust set of metric settings

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Sprint Flow

Track exactly how tickets are progressing throughout a Sprint, enabling you to spot potential risks to meeting your Sprint goals

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Active work metric

Ensure your work aligns with business priorities and enables focus across your value streams. Can be used for Flow Distribution

Written by Luke Thomas
Updated over a week ago

Code knowledge

How well is knowledge spread across your engineering teams? By looking at the relationship between PR author and commenters we can find out

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Release/Fix Version Flow

Track progress against a specific release or fix version, for those teams and programmes who are very release or project oriented

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Ticket/Story Points Flow

Track how a release, sprint, project or some other scope of work is evolving over time to spot any potential risks to your delivery

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Removing Outliers with percentiles

Exclude statistical outliers by refining the range of data included in certain key rate metrics

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Mean workflow cost

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Ticket commit hotspots

Highlights the relationship between your tickets and the affected number of files in your codebase

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Story points scope

Choose your sprint and see how the scope of that sprint changed, seeing added and removed story points each day

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Time between deployments

Measuring the mean average of time between the deployments

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Speeding transitions rate

Sometimes tickets are moved through transitions/statuses faster than we might expect

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Deployment data

Limit the tickets you see in Delivery Time & Code Cycle Time to only those that have been part of a Production Deployment

Written by Luke Thomas
Updated over a week ago

Ticket complexity

Using a variety of different measurements you are able to understand the complexity of completed tickets

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Mean time to resolve PRs

Pull requests are an important part of the development process, but how quickly are they being reviewed and merged?

Written by Luke Thomas
Updated over a week ago

Total workflow cost

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Percentiles

Rather than just the mean average, you can also calculate an exact percentile value where needed in our metrics

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Unresolved tickets story points

All the same views as Unresolved Tickets of backlogs, work in progress, and burndown charts but organised by Story Points

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Workflow / Build Failure Rate

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Frequency of deployments

Summarised as a number of deployments per day, a great core metric to monitor as you strive toward continuous delivery

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

First Time Pass Rate & Return Rate

Do tickets pass through your workflow from left to right in one clean pass, or are returns and defects affecting your delivery

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Unresolved tickets (backlog/burndown)

An incredibly versatile metric allowing you to create views of backlogs, work in progress and related burndown charts

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Sprint Settings

All of our ticket based metrics can have some additional logic that helps cater for specific use cases around Sprints.

Written by Luke Thomas
Updated over a week ago

Unit of Measurement

You don't need to be limited to ticket count and story points, you can measure tickets with any numeric field you want

Written by Luke Thomas
Updated over a week ago

Mean Time To Recover from Workflow Failures

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Number of deployments

Get full visibility of production deployments across all your CI/CD pipelines

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Mean Time Between Workflow Failures

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Sprint (target/work added) completion

Core Scrum metric so you can understand the overall success of your sprints and a closer look at the outcome of tickets at sprint end

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Mean Workflow Time

Looks at the mean average of workflow run times

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Make dashboard chart

Choose the best visualisation for each metric card that you want to make available on the dashboard view

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Returned tickets

Great way to see tickets that have moved the wrong way in your workflow, and you get to choose the 'return' transitions

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Delivery time

Time is a critical factor in software delivery, so being able to understand Lead/Cycle time and potential bottlenecks makes this a must-have

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Number of Workflows

The raw count of the number of workflows that have been run

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Flakiest Files

A sorted list of files in the codebase and how frequently a commit resolves in a failed build

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Created tickets

Get an instant view of the created tickets across your ticket data, allowing the usual flexibility in breakdowns and filters

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Completed tickets story points

If you use Story Points then this will allow you to explore the total completed by a variety of different perspectives

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Completed tickets

A simple but highly configurable way to understand what you are delivering, either by ticket count, story points or any numeric field

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Commits without a ticket reference

If you need full audit history between your tickets and your code commits, then you'll want to see the gaps this metric highlights

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Flow efficiency

Do your tickets spend time queuing? Find out the active vs inactive time of your completed tickets

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Commits without a pull request

If your process defines that every commit should have a related pull request, then this will tell you when they don't

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago

Commits Count

Pure engineering metric looking at all commits to all branches for the in-scope code repositories

Written by Will Lytle
Updated over a week ago