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Case Study - How PEI Group Automated Reporting & Gained Full SDLC Visibility with Plandek

Automated reporting & full SDLC visibility for smarter decision-making

The Challenge: Slow, manual reporting & limited visibility

PEI Group, a leader in private markets insights, data, and analytics, relies on data-driven decision-making to maintain its competitive edge. However, their engineering reporting process was slow, manual, and error-prone:

  1. Time-consuming reporting – Teams manually extracted Jira data into Excel, creating reports that were often outdated and inaccurate.
  2. Limited metrics – Cycle time, lead time, and build activity lacked proper measurement.
  3. Lack of full SDLC visibility – Engineering teams only had Jira-based insights, missing PR, build, and deployment data.

To scale efficiently and enhance visibility, PEI Group needed a centralized, automated solution

The Solution: Engineering Intelligence with Plandek

PEI Group’s Chief Product Officer, Darren Thorpe, had previously used Plandek and knew its value. When he joined PEI Group, he made it a priority to implement Plandek, confident it would provide the complete picture of engineering performance.

With guidance from Plandek’s team, PEI Group quickly rolled out the platform, integrating key engineering metrics into their workflows:

  • Cycle Time & Lead Time for Changes – Accurately tracking how long work takes from start to finish.
  • Time to Release & Deployment Frequency – Monitoring release speed and efficiency.
  • Build Activity & Failure Rates – Identifying and resolving inefficiencies in the CI/CD pipeline.

The Results: Automated insights, smarter decisions, & full team adoption

By integrating Plandek, PEI Group eliminated manual reporting inefficiencies and unlocked full visibility into their software delivery process:

Automated reporting & data accuracy – Eliminated Excel-based reports, saving hours of manual work.

Data-driven decision-makingEngineering metrics are now included in board-level data packs.

Full SDLC visibility – Engineers can track builds, deployments, and bottlenecks in real time.

Plandek quickly became the new standard for PEI Group. Initially used by web developers, it has since expanded to data engineers, BI teams, and support teams. New employees are onboarded with Plandek from day one, ensuring company-wide adoption.

Why choose Plandek fo full SDLC visibility

Plandek empowers engineering teams to:

✔️ Eliminate manual reporting – Automate and streamline key engineering metrics.

✔️ Gain full SDLC visibility – Track Jira, PR, build, and deployment data in one place.

✔️ Make data-driven decisions – Use real-time insights to improve delivery efficiency.

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Includes:

  • Leadership dashboards to ensure resource is focused on value creation

  • North Star metrics to align your engineering organization

  • Stakeholder reporting to better communicate productivity improvements

Includes:

  • SmartView for Sprints and Epics – live dashboards highlighting delivery risks & blockers for teams, including DORA, Flow, VSM and many more

  • Available in our SmartDelivery plan from just $59 per month, or included in Plandek suite

Includes:

  • Track over 50 metrics, including DORA, Flow, VSM and many more

  • Improve performance and quality of delivery over time

  • Choose from OTB templates or build your own dashboards from scratch

Includes:

  • Highly customizable BI capability to test hypotheses, identify root-causes and solve delivery issues

  • Build your own ‘data lab’

  • Import custom time series data to overlay financial, HR, developer surveys or customer data with engineering metrics