9 posts tagged with "tutorial"

Most DORA adoption efforts fail not because of tooling or data — but because they become 6-month projects that die in committee. The Accelerate research (Forsgren, Humble, Kim, 2018) showed that organizations with visible delivery metrics improve faster. The key word is visible: a dashboard nobody looks at is worse than no dashboard, because it creates the illusion of measurement. Here's a day-by-day plan to go from zero to live DORA dashboards in two weeks — fast enough that the momentum doesn't dissipate.

Setting up a Git integration shouldn't take a sprint. With GitLab and PanDev Metrics, it takes about 15 minutes — then every commit, merge request, and pipeline event flows into your engineering dashboard automatically.

This guide covers both GitLab SaaS (gitlab.com) and self-managed instances. No plugins, no complex OAuth flows — just webhooks and a personal access token.

Managing personal access tokens and manual webhooks for every repo gets old fast. PanDev Metrics integrates with GitHub through a dedicated GitHub App — no tokens to rotate, fine-grained permissions out of the box, and automatic webhook management.

This guide walks you through installing the app, granting permissions, and verifying that commit and pull request data flows into your dashboards.

Your Jira board says a task took 3 days. But how much of that was actual coding? How much was waiting for review? How much was context switching between other tickets?

PanDev Metrics bridges Jira's task management with real developer activity data — commits, IDE time, code reviews — so you see the full picture. Not just "in progress" and "done," but what happened in between. The integration uses Jira's REST API and OAuth 2.0 for secure, read-only access to your project data.

Every team lead asks the same question: how much real effort does each task actually take? ClickUp tracks work organization; PanDev Metrics tracks engineering activity. Together, they close the gap between "assigned" and "done."

This guide walks you through connecting ClickUp to PanDev via the ClickUp API, syncing tasks and time entries, and using the combined data to make better planning decisions.

Commits and pull requests tell you what was delivered. But they miss the hours of debugging, refactoring, and research that happen between pushes. IDE plugins capture that missing layer — how much time was spent coding, which files were touched, and when developers were most active.

PanDev Metrics offers plugins for VS Code, JetBrains (IntelliJ, PhpStorm, WebStorm), Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio, PL/SQL Developer, a Chrome extension, and a CLI for everything else. This guide covers installation and configuration for all of them.

Not every company can send engineering data to the cloud. Regulated industries, government contractors, and security-conscious organizations need their metrics platform on-premise — inside their own network, on their own servers. According to the CNCF Annual Survey, over 80% of organizations now run Kubernetes in production, making container-based on-premise deployment a well-understood operational pattern.

PanDev Metrics supports full on-premise deployment via Docker Compose (for small teams) and Kubernetes with Helm (for larger organizations). This guide covers both paths, including LDAP authentication, TLS certificates, and persistent storage.

Dashboards are great — until you need an answer that doesn't fit any pre-built chart. "What was our average PR review time last month, excluding the infra team?" That query doesn't have a button. It requires filtering, grouping, and calculating across multiple dimensions.

PanDev's AI assistant lets you ask questions like this in plain English. Powered by Google Gemini, it understands your engineering data and returns answers, charts, and tables in seconds. Gartner predicts that by 2026, over 80% of enterprises will have used generative AI APIs or deployed AI-augmented applications — natural-language analytics is part of that shift.

Your engineering team has 40 developers across three offices, a mix of full-time employees and contractors, salary ranges from $60K to $190K, and contractor rates from $45/h to $150/h. Someone asks: "How much did Project X cost last month?"

You open a spreadsheet. You check Jira. You send three Slack messages. An hour later, you have a rough guess. With global IT spending projected to exceed $5 trillion in 2025, that level of imprecision is expensive at any scale.