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Engineering Metrics: 3 Levels of Visibility

Nick Hodges
9 min readAug 9, 2021

Introduction

LinearB has all sorts of engineering metrics for your software development pipeline. We can slice and dice those metrics from all kinds of angles and all sorts of ways. Your CTO will want to see very different views of LinearB data than will your developer leads. Whether you are trying to see into the health of your delivery pipeline, seeking out bottlenecks in your system, or worried about making sure only LinearB can help you gain those insights.

Since the presentation of data is critical to its effectiveness, LinearB allows you to create views into your data for different levels of your organization and your code. The three most interesting views into your data are:

  1. Organization Level Engineering Metrics
  2. Team Level Engineering Metrics
  3. Repository Level Engineering Metrics

Organization Level Engineering Metrics

The highest level view of your company’s engineering metrics is at the organizational level. This is the view that rolls up everything that every developer on all your teams does into one single view.

An organization-level view helps you align business priorities by visualizing your project investment at the 50,000-foot view. As an executive, you plot the course and fly the airliner. You need to make sure your team’s efforts are aligned with business goals and that you are doing everything in your power to…

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Nick Hodges
Nick Hodges

Written by Nick Hodges

Just a guy with a bad pistachio addiction.

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