New in Seerene: Revision Activity
What can you learn from the code revisions in a project?
As a project manager or team lead juggling a team of individuals and complex code, it can be difficult to understand what’s affecting your project and its progress. Is one of your guys adding too much complexity to the codebase? Is there risky knowledge monopoly in your team that could suddenly leave you in a tricky situation? When did the code get so heavy? In the face of challenging databases and important deadlines, it’s also essential to find the right answers to these concerns, and at the right time.
It’s also no strange feeling to project managers that searching for clarity can feel like a directionless task, with many fruitless attempts and wasted time accumulating at trying to zone in on the root cause of an issue. The first essential stage consists of understanding the fact that a problem exists, as naturally it’s always easier to find a solution for an issue that you’re aware of. What’s rather more complex is understanding exactly why and how these matters are going wrong, and the power to associate shifts in coding activity with results, and with the human individuals working in the team.
With everyone working on the same codebase at the same time, analysing the trends inside the project and their impact on the overall state of the project can be very frustrating. Catering to all of these challenges, Seerene’s new Revision Activity feature enables you to pinpoint how individual changes lead to certain effects.
Step One: Break down the problem, Step Two: Analyse
It’s true that understanding the way that a project is progressing relies on analysing the trends inside the project. It’s also the case that breaking down the issue allows for far more sophisticated analysis, and a higher likelihood of not only being able to resolve the problem but of preventing it from reoccurring.
With Revision Activity, your project splits into smaller tasks to no longer sit as an unapproachable mass of endless work. By grouping them into teams, topics, priorities and many more properties, the feature makes it simple to drill down into the activities of your project and to gain some focus.
After selecting the way that you want to observe the work distribution in the project, analyse specific workstreams according to different KPIs such as Complexity, Knowledge Monopoly and Code Size. See when specific changes happened, and which workstream is responsible for the change.
Use the numbers
As you try to understand the progression of a workstream, use the clear line graphs in Revision Activity to view the KPI changes over time. Hover over the graph to view the exact numbers at any point in time, and use the readings to make informed, data-driven decisions.
Compare wisely
Making a comparison between different workstreams offers significant insight to the elements that are changing the direction of the project. Select different KPIs to see the relative influence of different teams or individuals on the codebase, and understand how different topics are contributing to the project’s current position.
Something caught your attention?
Keeping things under control is a continuous task, and Revision Activity allows you to get into a rhythm of monitoring the changes and fluctuations in your project. Finding the root cause of a change is the first step, but it is then crucial to act on it and track the result.
To monitor and share your findings in Revision Activity, add them as filters on Software Maps and pin them as widgets. To keep an eye on the workstream over time, add the widgets to your dashboard for a clear, succinct view of the project and a seamless process of heading to that page whenever you want a concise impression of how things are progressing.
Share your findings
A project tends to have many associated individuals concerned with its evolution, and you may not be the only one interested in the information provided by the platform. For one, the test manager in your team is certainly interested in the effort that went into defect fixing of other topics, and your engineering manager carries a constant interest in the distribution of knowledge monopoly in his team. Involve your team members in the steering process by sharing your findings with them via dashboard share, and discover how Revision Activity can bring you all onto the same page.
The power of Revision Activity
Sign into Seerene today, and start discovering the informative power of this new feature by selecting your focus and seeing what matters to you, at the moments when it’s most important.
· Unwrap your project and see what’s happening on the inside;
· Say goodbye to frustrating meetings or wasting time on explaining problems;
· No more sifting through the project’s history to uncover what happened a year ago;
· No more noise and tension created by the prospect of having to analyse performance;
· Avoid lengthy processes of asking around and guessing games with clear, succinct evaluations that bring you to an immediate conclusion.
Interested in finding out more? Head to Seerene.me to discover more about how Revision Activity can transform the way that you manage your projects.
