Engineering intelligence
Every board can have a dashboard view — a configurable, ClickHouse-backed collection of widgets covering delivery, flow, quality, and AI adoption. Pick a period, add the widgets you care about, and drill through to the rows behind a number.
A selection of widgets — DORA tiles, PR velocity, and AI adoption.
Adding a widget to a dashboard view
- + Add Widget — on any dashboard view, open the picker. Widgets are grouped by what they read: Pull Requests, Issues, Commits, Board State.
- Add — a widget whose required source isn't connected to this board shows a reason (e.g. "Needs GitHub.") and stays disabled until you connect it.
- The gear icon on a widget's header opens Configure Widget for its own options (commonly a range in weeks); the ? icon opens a popover explaining how to read it, with a link to that widget's full guide.
A first-time board also gets a one-time banner offering to Apply preset — 26 hand-tuned widgets covering DORA, planning accuracy, ticket↔code coverage, review quality, and AI adoption, added as a new view without touching any dashboard you've already built.
Widget catalog
Widgets are grouped by theme. Each declares which sources it needs (Jira / GitHub / GitLab / ADO); widgets without their required source are greyed out.
Each widget has a deep-dive guide in the widget reference — how to read it, and how to act on it.
Delivery & DORA
- DORA Metrics — lead time, deploy frequency, change-failure rate, time-to-restore, with Elite/High/Medium/Low tiers.
- Lead Time for Changes — first-commit → merge (p50).
- Delivery Trend — annotated daily delivery with calendar bands and peak highlighting.
Speed
- PR Velocity (weekly merged) · PR Cycle Time Trend (weekly p50) · PR Cycle Time Scatter (one dot per PR, click through).
- Review Pickup Time (opened → first review) · PR Size Distribution (XS–XL).
- Velocity Leaderboard · Merge Frequency per Developer · Commits per Developer (lines changed + AI-assist %).
Flow
- Completion Rate · Completion Trend · Issues Opened vs Closed.
- Work in Progress (WIP) · Throughput & Cycle Time.
Planning
- Iteration Planning Accuracy — % of planned work finished in scope.
- Velocity with Confidence Band (±1σ) · Initiative Risk Radar (on-track / at-risk / overdue) · Backlog Age.
- Investment Allocation — delivered effort split across feature / bug / tech-debt / KTLO.
Quality
- Rework Rate — % of commits re-touching lines within 21 days.
- Bug Rate · Review Quality Index (coverage, dwell, instant-merge, comments, ticket links) and its trend.
AI adoption
- AI-Assisted PR % · AI Adoption (monthly AI PR% / commit%) · Review Mix (Bot vs Human) · Reviewer Participation · Bot vs Human Commits (weekly AI vs human commit share).
Board health & correlation
- Status Distribution, Status by Group, Items by Owner, Stuck in Progress, Blocked / Stale Items.
- Ticket Coverage Rate — % of merged PRs linked to a ticket.
Comparison view
A multi-board Comparison puts up to twelve boards side by side as columns, using three comparison-only widgets. See Comparing boards side by side for how to create one and add boards to it.
For a single board, Period Comparison answers the same "are we improving" question a different way — one board, two adjacent 90-day windows, six KPIs with Improved/Regressed/Flat verdicts.
Team Focus — the other analytics tab
Engineering Intelligence answers how well is delivery running. Team Focus answers a different question the same data can support: where did this team's attention actually go, and how much of it reached production?
The two are scoped identically — the same board sources, the same period picker, the same JQL and area-path filters — and they divide by different things. Flow metrics divide by tickets; Focus divides by attention days, which is what lets it report a quarter of small defects as a quarter of small defects rather than as a productive quarter.
Learn more
- How a widget gets its number — the data pipeline, and a checklist for a widget reading zero.
- Filters & date ranges — how the period picker and per-widget config combine.
- Drilling into a person or a ticket — getting from a tile to the rows behind it.
- Comparing boards side by side — the multi-board Comparison view.
- All widgets — every widget's own deep-dive guide.
- Team Focus — the attention, classification and delivery-stage view.
Related reading
- DORA metrics without gaming them — how to keep the four keys honest.
- Open-source Jellyfish & LinearB alternative — how Deckgauge compares to commercial SEI platforms.
- How to prove your GitHub Copilot ROI — measure AI-assisted delivery with real data.
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