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Accelerate your value delivery with the Plandek Flow metrics platform
Combine data from your DevOps toolsets for a new level of end-to-end insight. Surface Flow metrics and related Agile DevOps metrics to rapidly improve your delivery effectiveness.
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Time to Value
Deployment Frequency
Escaped Defects
Sprint Accuracy
Flow Efficiency
Accelerate your value delivery with the leading Value Stream Management platform
- Combine Flow metrics with other related metrics to form a holistic view of delivery capability and Agile DevOps maturity.
- Use our out-of-the-box Flow metrics dashboards or create highly customisable dashboards for Kanban and Scrum teams surfacing Flow metrics.
- Integrate with your Value Stream Management toolset to track and manage Flow metrics by value stream.
- Save time on your value delivery reporting – report on Flow metrics across Team, Tribe, Release Train, Programme Increment, etc.
What are the Flow metrics?
The Flow Metrics are popularised in the Flow Framework and are aligned with the concept of Value Stream Management as they are designed to measure the rate of value delivery for software products from a customer perspective.
Flow Efficiency
Flow Efficiency is a core Flow Metric and is a critical measure of efficiency that all delivery teams should track and act upon. It analyses ticket statuses to calculate the proportion of time tickets remain in an ‘active’ status versus an ‘inactive’ status.
Flow Velocity
Flow Velocity tracks the speed of value delivery and measures the number of ‘Flow items’ of each type (i.e. by value stream) over time.
Flow Time
Flow Time is a similar metric to Time to Value. It measures the time taken for Flow Items to progress from ‘work start’ to ‘work complete’.
Flow Load
Flow Load is a measure of WIP and is designed to measure the utilisation of teams across value streams. Flow Load measures the number of Flow Items currently in progress across a team or value stream
Flow Distribution
Flow Distribution considers work types underway across specific timeframes and is therefore helpful when prioritising resources/work. Flow Distribution tracks the ratio between Flow item types over a period of time.
Download the Ultimate Guide to Software Delivery Metrics
This in-depth guide is a practical resource that will help you: select the metrics that you want to track (relevant to your use case); identify the tools you need to collect the data; set targets and embed the metrics across your organisation; and drive real behaviour change in order to improve your delivery effectiveness.
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Up to 25 contributors*
Max 2 Jira/ADO boards
Max 5 code repos
Unlimited contributors*
Unlimited boards
Unlimited code repos
- Workflow management (Jira and ADO)
- Code repos (all)
- CI/CD tools (all)
- Monitoring tools (selected)
Plus, Custom time series API to connect any other data source (e.g. HR, customer, financial data)
- Workflow management (Jira and ADO)
- Code repos (all)
- CI/CD tools (all)
- Monitoring tools (selected)
Plus, Custom time series API to connect any other data source (e.g. HR, customer, financial data)
LiveView for Sprints & Epics
LiveView uses proprietary machine learning (ML) algorithms to analyse ticket data and identify anomalies and action items to increase velocity, reduce risk and improve forecasting and delivery accuracy.
LiveView for Sprints & Epics
LiveView uses proprietary machine learning (ML) algorithms to analyse ticket data and identify anomalies and action items to increase velocity, reduce risk and improve forecasting and delivery accuracy.
Super-easy, immediate and cost-free connection and data set-up (via the Plandek website)
Super-easy, immediate and cost-free connection and data set-up (via the Plandek website)
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Dedicated Customer Success Account Manager to help select metrics, cascade Plandek across your organisation and drive an ongoing cycle of metrics-led continuous improvement
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Self-manage the addition of boards, repos and pipelines
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* “Contributors” is defined as the number of unique people who have been active in the data sources over the last 90 days. It is limited only to the Jira boards, Azure teams, or repos being gathered by Plandek.
If you are gathering data from a workflow management tool such as Jira or Azure, your Contributors are based on the number of unique people active on the respective Jira boards or Azure teams over the last 90 days. Repo and CI/CD contributors are free of charge in this scenario, provided they do not exceed the number of Jira/Azure contributors.
If you do not have a workflow management tool integrated into Plandek, your Contributors will be based on the number of engineers active in the respective repos (e.g. committers, reviewers, approvers).
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Jayr Motta
Head of Engineering, Alef Education
“After almost 2 years with Plandek, the conversation has shifted a lot among the leaders and many team members from ‘why’ to ‘how’. Although we have already seen improvements in our metrics, we are just now feeling a shift in mindset which will bear fruit in the future.”
Andrew Mulford
VP Head of Delivery, Preqin
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CTO, TalkTalk Group
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