devActivity

devActivity: Track, Analyze & Improve Your DevEx

What is devActivity?

devActivity is a tool designed to track, analyze, and improve your software development experience (DevEx). It provides actionable insights and engaging gamification features to empower software engineering projects.

Key Features:

• Data-driven Performance Reviews: devActivity offers data-driven performance reviews based on commits, pull requests, code reviews, issues, and comments events.
• AI-Powered Retrospective Insights: Unlock rich-context AI-driven insights and recommendations with just a few clicks.
• Contribution and Work Quality Analytics: Analyze contribution and work quality to identify areas of improvement.
• Operational Bottleneck Alerts: Receive alerts for operational bottlenecks, ensuring projects stay on track.
• Gamification: XP, Levels / Challenges, Achievements / Leaderboard features based on GitHub activity metrics.

How does devActivity work?

devActivity works by integrating with GitHub through a free GitHub app. Once installed, it automatically gathers Git metadata to provide granular visibility into the development process. The tool analyzes this data to generate metrics, alerts, and gamification features.

Steps to get started:

1. Install the free GitHub app.
2. devActivity automatically gathers Git metadata.
3. Explore AI-driven insights and recommendations.

Why is devActivity important?

devActivity is important because it helps optimize engineering processes, identify bottlenecks, and track team performance. It empowers teams with actionable insights, gamified motivation, and clear performance metrics, leading to increased engagement and productivity. C-level management gains 360-degree visibility into their engineering team’s performance, enabling data-driven decisions to optimize delivery and drive business growth.

Who is devActivity for?

devActivity is designed for:

• Engineering Teams: Engineering/Delivery Managers, Team Leads
• Product and Project Managers: Those looking to optimize engineering processes and track team performance.
• C-Level Management: Engineering VPs, CTOs, and Delivery Directors needing a 360-degree view of engineering team performance.
• Open Source Project Maintainers: Attract, reactivate and engage your contributors

Key Benefits:

• Effortless Implementation: Simple installation via a free GitHub app.
• Fully Automated: Zero manual input required.
• AI-Powered: Unlock rich-context AI-driven insights and recommendations.
• Comprehensive Support: Targeting to improve whole GitHub Community, supporting public and private repos, all-sizes teams and organizations.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Is it genuinely free?

Yes, devActivity uses a Freemium model. All features are free to use, with the option to upgrade for extended functionality.

Will you access my source code?

No, devActivity prioritizes non-sensitive data like Git metadata and does not access your source code.

What kind of data do you collect from GitHub?

devActivity gathers Git metadata, including the type of activity (commits, pull requests), timestamps, and author information.

Do you support other platforms (GitLab, Bitbucket etc)?

Currently, devActivity focuses on GitHub, with plans to expand to other Git platforms in the future.

Best way to improve engineering/delivery performance?

devActivity is the best way to improve engineering/delivery performance with actionable insights and gamification features. The tool provides data-driven performance reviews, AI-powered insights, and operational bottleneck alerts for optimized software development.