Track Key Software Delivery Metrics: Introducing Engineering Insights Hub

At our Galaxy conference last week, we gave a first glimpse of one of our latest product announcements—Engineering Insights Hub. 

In case you missed it or simply want to learn more, keep reading as we take a deep dive into Engineering Insights Hub and how it will help your team boost engineering efficiency with visibility into key software delivery metrics.

Data-informed decisions lead to greater engineering efficiency

In today’s business climate, it’s crucial to get new features and experiences into the hands of customers as safely and efficiently as possible. We know our customers leverage LaunchDarkly to do just that—build their best software and deliver it to customers. Yet one question remains: How can engineering teams measure and quantify their progress toward engineering efficiency to confidently demonstrate success? 

Queue LaunchDarkly’s Engineering Insights Hub. This feature provides access to key metrics so engineering leaders can make data-informed decisions that promote engineering efficiency. With the launch of the Early Access Program waitlist for the LaunchDarkly Engineering Insights Hub customers will be able to:

• Quickly and easily access organization-level engineering productivity and efficiency metrics across projects.
• Gain deeper insight into critical project-level metrics, empowering teams to identify bottlenecks in workflows and processes.
• Ensure proper flag health by promoting best practices and removing flags safely.
• View, compare, and share organizational successes and best practices. 

Let’s dive into how we do this!

Visualize key engineering metrics all in one place

When data is scattered and disparate, engineering leaders find themselves in a time-consuming and painstaking process to collect and synthesize their data. And despite all the effort, it’s still hard to get a clear and accurate picture of how engineering teams are performing.

With LaunchDarkly Engineering Insights Hub, the process of tracking essential metrics like Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, and other feature-flag-specific insights is simplified. Now, engineering leaders can quickly visualize their teams' performance data all in one place.

Understand engineering performance at a glance

Not only can engineering leaders quickly visualize their performance all in one place, but they can also access critical indicators for every metric—making clear assessments of whether things are going well or require further attention. Leadership can quickly visualize what key metrics are performing well and double-click into ones that are negatively trending with pre-built dashboards. 

For example, in the image below, you can see that the risk assessment is excellent, but the velocity metric needs attention. An engineering leader can simply click into the velocity score for additional details on potential bottlenecks.

Leverage tailored improvement recommendations

But simply measuring and understanding performance is only half the battle of truly impacting engineering efficiency. Without next steps or informed plans of action, metrics are simply just that—numbers that give engineering teams a grade. That’s why, coming soon, LaunchDarkly will provide tailored recommendations for improvement against critical indicators. This guidance will assist individual teams in ongoing improvement and enable them to achieve their goals more efficiently.

For example, as engineering teams begin to scale the usage of LaunchDarkly, Engineering Insights Hub helps them stay on top of their flag health. With LaunchDarkly’s flag health detection, engineering teams can see exactly which flags can be cleaned up, saving them time and ensuring optimal flag health.

Compare metrics across teams

To round out the release of Engineering Insights Hub, our goal is to help customers view and compare critical indicators across their organization so that they can share best practices and successes. For the first time ever, customers can access an organization-level dashboard in LaunchDarkly to easily view the most critical, top-level performance metrics and get important vertical breakdowns for all of their projects in one place. This will help ensure our customers can maximize the impact of LaunchDarkly across their engineering efficiency.

Conclusion 

To recap – Engineering Insights Hub will help teams:

• Speed up software delivery while also maintaining quality.
• Quickly visualize and understand how things are going at the company level.
• Dive into your most critical engineering metrics and target efforts where it matters most.
• Ensure that you’re following best practices and recommendations to maximize the value of LaunchDarkly.

Are you ready to get started?  Connect with your account representative today and learn how your team can start leveraging Engineering Insights Hub*

Not a LaunchDarkly user today but want to see more? Sign up for a demo today! 

*Engineering Insights Hub is generally available for all LaunchDarkly enterprise customers using GitHub.