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The ratings below are from verified users from a third-party review platform.
50+
Highly configurable metrics available
8.9
Metrics
Metrics
Metrics
9.3
8.9
9.0
9.1
8.9
7.5
7.6
8.2
9.8
9.1
9.5
9.4
- Jira, ADO Github, Gitlab and others
- ADO integration available
- All integrations here
- Jira, Github, and Linear
- Does not support ADO.
- Jira, ADO Github, Gitlab and others
- ADO integration available
- Jira, Github, Gitlab and others
- Does not support ADO
Darren Thorpe
CPO, PEI Media
Up to 25 contributors*
Max 2 Jira/ADO boards
Max 5 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)
- The most comprehensive range of engineering, agile delivery and DevOps metrics available
- Highly configurable metrics able to align to complex and disparate workflows
- Includes DORA and Flow metrics and related determinant metrics
SmartView for Sprints & Epics
SmartView 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.
Plandek improves operational roadmap delivery, enables a metrics-led culture of continuous delivery improvement, and improves delivery effectiveness (R&D ROI) reporting to stakeholders.
Tech leadership
Highly configurable dashboards, analytics and reporting for Tech leadership, including:
- ‘North Star’ dashboards to create a ‘balanced scorecard’ of metrics to track and drive continuous delivery improvement
- Strategic Alignment and Effectiveness dashboards to communicate resource allocation, delivery efficiency and value to stakeholders
- Financial reporting and analysis, including R&D Tax Credit calculation
Engineering/Delivery/DevOps Managers
Highly configurable dashboards and OOB templates to track and improve operational delivery:
- Roadmap delivery efficiency and velocity
- Sprint and epic accuracy and predictability
- Quality and security
- DevOps processes
- Engineer wellbeing
Teams
- SmartView intelligent insight (and action items) at sprint and epic levels to remove blockers, increase velocity and improve delivery forecasting
- Intelligent insight for stand-ups and retros not available in Jira or ADO
Super-easy, immediate and cost-free connection and data set-up (via the Plandek website)
Free for 3 months, and from £250 per calendar month thereafter
Email-based technical support only
Self-manage the addition of boards, repos and pipelines
Cloud-native SaaS solution
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)
- The most comprehensive range of engineering, agile delivery and DevOps metrics available
- Highly configurable metrics able to align to complex and disparate workflows
- Includes DORA and Flow metrics and related determinant metrics
SmartView for Sprints & Epics
SmartView 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.
Plandek improves operational roadmap delivery, enables a metrics-led culture of continuous delivery improvement, and improves delivery effectiveness (R&D ROI) reporting to stakeholders.
Tech leadership
Highly configurable dashboards, analytics and reporting for Tech leadership, including:
- ‘North Star’ dashboards to create a ‘balanced scorecard’ of metrics to track and drive continuous delivery improvement
- Strategic Alignment and Effectiveness dashboards to communicate resource allocation, delivery efficiency and value to stakeholders
- Financial reporting and analysis, including R&D Tax Credit calculation
Engineering/Delivery/DevOps Managers
Highly configurable dashboards and OOB templates to track and improve operational delivery:
- Roadmap delivery efficiency and velocity
- Sprint and epic accuracy and predictability
- Quality and security
- DevOps processes
- Engineer wellbeing
Teams
- SmartView intelligent insight (and action items) at sprint and epic levels to remove blockers, increase velocity and improve delivery forecasting
- Intelligent insight for stand-ups and retros not available in Jira or ADO
Super-easy, immediate and cost-free connection and data set-up (via the Plandek website)
Free Customer Success and technical support to facilitate set-up
Free Proof of Concept (POC) managed by Customer Success team (typically 1 week)
Email-based technical support to agreed service-level agreements (SLAs)
Dedicated Customer Success Account Manager to help select metrics, cascade Plandek across your organisation and drive an ongoing cycle of metrics-led continuous improvement
Plandek Agile DevOps maturity benchmark data and quarterly benchmark reviews available
Self-manage the addition of boards, repos and pipelines
Single sign-on (SSO) available
Cloud-native SaaS solution
On-prem data gatherers available
Ratings above were generated from verified users via G2 external review platform. This information above was correct as of June 2024.
Why engineering leaders trust Plandek
Gary Stevens
Director of Engineering, Trainline
“Plandek has really allowed us to mature the conversation about productivity and quality. It’s now a regular part of all meetings we have, and we’re able to give stakeholders broader confidence in how we’re performing as an engineering function.“
Darren Thorpe
Chief Product Officer, PEI Media
“If you want to know if engineering is running efficiently, Plandek gives you the complete picture. If I could take one product with me to a new company, it would be Plandek – and I did when I joined PEI Media.”
Phil Haslam
CTO, TalkTalk Group
“Effective technology delivery is a key strategic differentiator for our business. Plandek enables me to track and drive delivery effectiveness – putting intelligent insight in the hands of my teams and enabling me to communicate success better with my stakeholders.”
Ramsay Ashby
Senior Software Delivery Operations Manager, Skyscanner
“Essential tool to support teams in modern software delivery. Plandek helps teams to understand their areas for improvement in a way that the default charts in Jira don’t enable…”
Stuart Pearce
Portfolio CTO, Hg Capital
‘We are here to help our portfolio companies accelerate their value delivery. The effectiveness of their technology delivery – and the ROI of their R&D – is a key piece of that jigsaw. Plandek enables our portfolio companies to track and drive their R&D ROI, as part of their broader value creation approach.’
Giulio Folino
Head of Digital, Ministry of Justice
“At the MoJ, we believe data is the best way to drive continual improvement & build an effective delivery culture. Plandek has enabled us to focus on the delivery behaviours that drive the right outcomes whilst providing our people with a robust tool to support coaching & learning opportunities.”
Tristia Harrison
CEO, TalkTalk Group
“Technology delivery was an area that lacked a ‘balanced scorecard’ of metrics to share with the C-suite. Plandek provides those metrics whilst also enabling the delivery team (from squad level upwards) to optimise around the metrics that I care about. As such it is tremendously powerful.”
Frequently asked questions
Plandek is ideal for organisations at any stage of maturity, but especially those just starting as having a baseline is critical for any team looking to demonstrate progress.
Teams at an early phase of agile adoption will focus on a simple set of metrics to highlight and track improvements over time (e.g. Cycle Time). As they advance, insights will reach deeper into specific behaviours and across different phases of your delivery lifecycle to enrich your understanding of how you deliver and where further opportunities lie to improve.
To help you assess how far you are in your benchmark your performance against leading organisations.
Plandek has been architected specifically to address scale and complexity. You can connect all of your on-prem and/or cloud instances of tools, as well as a combination of those tools (e.g. Plandek can concurrently pull data from multiple on-prem and cloud instances of Jira, Azure, Bitbucket, Github, and many more).
Once ingested, data is standardised in Plandek so that regardless of the source, the data is able to handle a diverse set of workflows, statuses, issue types, and so on, and can be normalised so that you can look across a broad ecosystem of diverse configurations but the data displays in a simple, user-friendly way.
Yes, this is a key differentiator for Plandek, as we provide our Plandek customers with all the help that they need!
Our Customer Success Team provide a simple framework to help you select a hierarchy of meaningful metrics and to embed their use (via Plandek) throughout your delivery capability – to drive real performance improvement over time.
In addition, we offer paid professional services (PS) packages for more extensive coaching, implementation and change management initiatives if required.
Data security is critical for all our clients and we have architected Plandek from the ground up to be secure.
- Plandek is a SaaS solution hosted in the Google European cloud.
- Plandek’s key data sources are workflow management tools (e.g. Jira); code repos. (e.g. Git); and CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins).
- Plandek only stores metadata about the development process and avoids storing data that may hold sensitive IP (as such Plandek does NOT store data such as ticket descriptions, source code, commit messages, attachments or comments). Examples of metadata stored include transitions of issues, the time of commits and pull requests.
- All-access to your toolsets is performed over encrypted connections. Plandek uses read-only accounts and will never change data in the source systems.
- All-access credentials which are held are encrypted with Google Key Management Service, giving us the ability to monitor decryptions and revoke and rotate keys regularly.
Yes, customers can choose from a range of paid professional services packages to provide more extensive change management support to embed Plandek and help you create a data-led delivery culture. This includes our quarterly benchmarking analysis, which is available from our expert team of analysts.
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