Plandek
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Plandek is a Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform that helps engineering teams deliver software smarter, faster, and easier. It provides intelligent analytics to accelerate roadmap delivery, improve engineering productivity, and unlock hidden capacity. The platform offers various features, including AI-powered dashboards (SmartView), customizable metrics (DORA, SPACE, Flow), North Star dashboards for leadership, and a custom API for third-party data integration. Plandek caters to different roles, from technology leaders to scrum masters, providing insights and support for improved delivery processes and overall team performance. The platform integrates with various DevOps toolsets, such as Jira, GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket, providing a comprehensive view of the software delivery lifecycle. Plandek offers two main pricing plans: SmartDelivery and Enterprise. SmartDelivery focuses on AI-powered sprint and epic delivery insights at $59 per board/month. The Enterprise plan offers a complete suite of features with pricing available upon request.
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Features
• ai-powered software delivery insights
• custom api for third-party data integration
• bespoke dashboards and analytics for root cause analysis
• north star dashboards for leadership
• 50+ customizable agile delivery and engineering metrics
• smartview dashboards for sprints and epics
FAQs
Am I too early in my Agile journey to make use of Plandek?
Plandek is ideal for organizations 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.
We have a complex systems architecture and different workflows – will Plandek work?
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.
Do you offer help to select metrics and drive improvement over time?
Yes – we provide our Plandek Enterprise 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.
What data does Plandek store?
Data security is critical for all our clients and we have architected Plandek from the ground up to be secure. 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 the storage of data which 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.
Are metrics meaningful when aggregated across teams?
Plandek enables you to select metrics that are very powerful when aggregated across your delivery organisation. We refer to these as ‘North Star’ metrics that can be adopted by technology leadership as the key measures around which they would like the entire delivery organisation to align. Examples might include Lead Time to Value, Deployment Frequency, [Flow Efficiency](https://plandek.com/blog/flow-efficiency/) etc. Plandek also enables you to track a set of determinant metrics at the team level, that drive improvement in your selected ‘North Star’ metrics, so that you improve rapidly over time.
Will the metrics be ‘gamed’ by teams and therefore create unintended outcomes?
In most cases, Plandek prevents ‘gamification’ by surfacing a dashboard of interrelated metrics that quickly show if gamification is taking place. In addition, Plandek’s ‘balanced scorecard’ approach ensures that an improvement in one metric does not adversely affect another (e.g. an increase in velocity resulting in a decrease in quality). However, we find that in some cases gamification indeed encourages the right behaviours from teams and individuals (e.g. commit frequency). With these metrics, in particular, gaming the metrics ultimately drives the desired effect. It is important to add that Plandek is an analytics tool for use within technology by Team Leads and Managers who remain close to their teams. Analytics are a complement to, and not a substitute for, effective human relationship management.
Our use of Jira is inconsistent, so how will we get meaningful data from it?
We have not come across a client yet that would call their use of Jira ‘perfect.’ All organisations have teams and individuals who may not use Jira in the way it is intended. Nevertheless, Plandek can still surface critical insights, as well as show immediately where any poor Jira use may reside – therefore enabling you to establish a positive loop of improved Jira use, better analytics and improved performance.
Relating to the question above, should we focus on improving our Jira usage before starting with Plandek?
Plandek can help you improve the consistency of your Jira use, as well as engineering process quality more generally, but you certainly don’t have to only focus on improving your use from the start. Some metrics may not provide as deep an insight until use improves, but many of our new clients find that the problem is not as prolific as they first feared. For example, with Cycle Time, you will still be able to calculate the start of development to “done” to see the total time, but perhaps the granularity of the stages between start and end will be more limited until the teams improve and perhaps add new statuses worth measuring. Plandek has a “Speeding Tickets” metric which enables you to see where Jira statuses are not being updated in real-time. This is a great example of a metric which helps you understand and improve your teams’ ticket management.
Does Plandek offer value if we don’t want to look at metrics at the individual engineer level?
Plandek has filters to enable you to look at metrics at whatever level suits you – individual, squad, team, product, tribe, Release Train etc. Indeed, Plandek is focused on improving the end-to-end efficiency of your delivery process – and less focused on analysing individual performance. We know empirically that the biggest improvements in velocity, quality and [predictability](https://plandek.com/blog/improve-your-predictability/) arise from better management across your teams and delivery process – rather than through scrutiny of individuals.
Pricing Plans
Plandek SmartDelivery
USD59.00 / per month• Data history and retention for up to 60 days
• Data connections to JIRA, GitLab, Github and Bitbucket
• Data updated every one hour
• SmartView for Sprints
• SmartView for Epics
Plandek Enterprise
Unknown Price• Data history and retention for up to 180 days
• Data connections to Workflow Management tools (Jira and ADO), all code repos and CI/CD tools, and selected monitoring tools
• Access to Plandek’s custom API for bespoke data insights from third-party sources (e.g. HR, customer, financial data)
• Data updated almost in real-time
• Over 50+ customisable Agile delivery and engineering metrics including DORA, SPACE and Flow.
• Align your teams with ‘North Star’ dashboards for leadership. Plus, dedicated C-Suite and stakeholder reporting to evidence improvement in focus (roadmap alignment), productivity and ROI.
• Optimize over time by using our popular OTB dashboards (including our DORA PRO board). Build your own dashboards for teams and managers to share engineering successes and improvements in performance over time.
• Customize your analytics with highly-configurable metrics & bespoke dashboards – a key differentiator of using Plandek over other similar tools. Perform a deep-dive using our custom features for Root Cause Analysis across the SDLC.
• Connect external third-party data sources (e.g. finance, HR, customer data) for additional insights and overlay to find interesting correlations
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