Team Efficiency Tracking
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The Work Dashboard provides valuable insights into team productivity and collaboration, empowering teams to analyze and improve their workflows effectively. By tracking pull request performance, commit patterns, and individual contributions, teams can enhance their development processes and overall productivity.
Prerequisites
Completed Team Efficiency Tracking setup in Radar's Get Started guide.
The Work dashboard is divided into two main sections:
Pull Requests: Analyzes pull request metrics and trends. [link]
Commits: Provides insights into commit patterns and file contributions. [link]
The Pull Requests section offers a comprehensive view of your team's pull request activity and efficiency:
Value: Understand the overall workload and complexity of your team's pull requests.
How to use:
Monitor the total number of merged pull requests to gauge overall productivity.
Analyze the trend in pull request size over time to identify potential complexity issues or improvements in code organization.
Value: Assess the speed and efficiency of your team's pull request process.
How to use:
Track the average cycle time to identify bottlenecks in the review process.
Monitor the number of file changes per pull request to balance between meaningful updates and manageable reviews.
Look for correlations between PR size, file changes, and cycle time to optimize your development process.
Value: Visualize the net impact of code changes in production.
How to use:
Assess the overall trend of code additions vs. deletions.
Identify weeks with significant code churn and correlate with major feature releases or refactoring efforts.
The Commits section provides insights into the nature and distribution of code contributions:
Value: Understand the balance between feature development and bug fixing efforts.
How to use:
Monitor the ratio of feature commits to bug fix commits to assess development focus.
Use this information to adjust resource allocation between new feature development and maintenance work.
Value: Visualize commit patterns over time to identify productivity trends.
How to use:
Analyze weekly commit patterns to understand your team's development rhythm.
Identify any seasonal trends or impacts from project phases on commit frequency.
Value: Identify the most frequently updated files and potential areas of technical debt.
How to use:
Focus code review efforts on frequently changed files.
Identify files with high bug fix contributions as candidates for refactoring or increased testing.
Use this information to guide documentation efforts and knowledge sharing within the team.
Locate the "Select date range" dropdown at the top of both Pull Requests and Commits sections.
Choose your desired time frame for analysis.
The dashboard will automatically update to reflect your selection, allowing for focused analysis over specific periods.
