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Engineering metrics dashboard

Design and implement a dashboard for tracking engineering team performance

Create a comprehensive dashboard that provides visibility into engineering productivity, quality, and team health metrics.

120 minutes
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Overview

Create a comprehensive dashboard that provides visibility into engineering productivity, quality, and team health metrics.

Learning objectives

  • Select meaningful engineering metrics
  • Design effective data visualizations
  • Implement automated data collection
  • Create actionable insights from metrics

Instructions

Build a dashboard that helps your team track and improve performance.

Steps

1

Define KPIs

30 minutes

Define key performance indicators

2

Map data sources

25 minutes

Map data sources and collection methods

3

Design dashboard

35 minutes

Design dashboard layout and visualizations

4

Implement pipelines

20 minutes

Implement data pipelines

5

Create guidelines

10 minutes

Create usage guidelines and training

Pro tips

  • •Focus on actionable metrics
  • •Avoid vanity metrics
  • •Ensure real-time or near-real-time updates
  • •Include trend analysis capabilities

Example outcome

A live dashboard showing deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate, and team health indicators.

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