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  • Introducing developer profiles

    Developer Profiles: A Granular View Into Productivity

    This week, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our most long-awaited feature – the Developer Profiles. This view is designed to provide engineering managers with an in-depth, personalized understanding of each developer’s performance and workload, across time horizons. Let’s dive in. A Closer Look at the Developer Profiles Synced with GitHub, the Developer Profiles…

  • New: Allocations, synced with Jira

    We’re excited to reveal another long-awaited feature from our engineering team. Starting today engineering teams on Tara will be able to sync Allocations with Jira, to see your team’s work allocation and track initiatives.  This week’s release also includes enhancements for the Activity and existing Allocations page. Let’s dive in! How Allocations for Jira works…

  • Introducing Issues Progress

    Introducing Issues Progress: A Comprehensive View of Your Team’s Workload

    We are always on the lookout for ways to empower engineering teams with visibility. Keeping in line with this, we are thrilled to introduce our latest feature in the development insights suite: Issues Progress. Let’s take a closer look at what it does and why we think it is beneficial for your team. How It…

  • Announcing Benchmarks to set standards for pr cycle time

    Introducing benchmarks: setting standards for cycle time

    Engineering leaders have consistently told us how difficult it is to set standards, and set their baselines for productivity. What does good look like, and how do we communicate this across teams? With a data set of millions of pull requests synced into our system, we’re now sharing benchmarks to help teams quickly know where…

  • Introducing allocations

    New: Allocate engineering investments

    In our journey to empower teams with visibility and clarity, we are thrilled to reveal our newest addition to the development insights suite: Engineering Allocations.  By directly syncing with your GitHub labels, this powerful feature is designed to help engineering teams balance and track initiatives, allowing for better goal setting. Let’s take a look. What…

  • Introducing Development Activity

    New: Discover the size and velocity of your team’s Development Activity

    This week, we’re releasing a brand new view in our development insights suite to help teams keep track of their progress and productivity: the Activity page. It’s a powerful visualization tool that presents an overview of size and velocity of development activity.

  • Monitor PR health

    Introducing PR Cycle Time: More Visibility Into Your Team’s PR Health

    This week, we’re excited to announce the second feature in the automated engineering insights suite: PR Cycle Time. This feature provides valuable insights into the health of your pull requests (PR), allowing you to identify blockers in the development cycle, improve your PR workflow, and accelerate your engineering velocity.

  • Streamlining Your Development Cycle with Deployment Frequency

    We’re excited to announce the first feature in the automated engineering insights suite: Deployment Frequency. This dashboard gives you more visibility into your development environment and the flow of code in between, delivering a new level of transparency and operational efficiency to your workflow.

  • Introducing automated engineering insights

    Announcing automated engineering insights

    8 out of 10 engineering managers use spreadsheets to track engineering efficiency, delivery, capacity and project status. And it’s painful. Business goals are far removed, reporting is manual and lagging and there’s no real-time syncing with Github or Jira. Today, we’re announcing a new way to maximize engineering impact and scale product delivery, using your…

  • Software Test Plans: A Complete Guide with Templates

    Running software tests without a proper software testing plan is a recipe for disaster. Without a test plan, it can be challenging to streamline the testing approach and ensure all product areas are tested adequately. That means it’s harder to ensure any product issues are identified and fixed before the software goes live. And, without…

Featured Templates

Downloadable Templates to get your product and engineering teams kickstarted.

  • sprint planning template

    Sprint Planning Template for Modern Agile Teams

    Sprint planning is one of the four Scrum ceremonies. It’s held at the beginning of every sprint to define the goals and backlog while keeping the team in sync.  💡What is sprint planning? ›› Since sprint planning is crucial for a successful sprint you need to be able to improve the flow of information, save…