Haystack

What do you like best?

Quantifying our team's software delivery performance is made a lot easier with Haystack's focused dashboards, which is helpful in any analysis of our engineering processes. I'm also able to easily view at a glance WIP/long-lived PRs across repos that may be an indicator of chokepoints in the process.

Julian has also been very receptive to feedback, and I believe the team is on the right track in tackling some of the issues with git-based analytics.

What do you dislike?

Some key integrations with communication tools (e.g. Slack) would be very useful in elevating the visibility of the metrics & insights from this solution.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Try it out! It's pretty lightweight to start off with and costs nothing (at the time of my review) to trial this solution out.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Haystack has helped me measure key parts of my team's software delivery performance over time (cycle time, throughput). This has been useful in communicating our engineering capabilities to management, as well as in debugging the software development processes for various teams.