Drive Predictable and Efficient
Software Delivery
connected to Business Goals
through Leading Indicators
The Problem
CTOs often face challenges in driving Predictable and Efficient Software Delivery and connecting it to overall Business Goals. The reasons for that include:
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Traditional metrics focused on outputs and Lagging indicators such as the number of features, story points, pull requests, or bugs found are difficult to translate into business value.
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The Engineering team is not being appreciated enough.
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The business and Engineering teams don’t share a common language, leading to important information getting lost in translation.
The Solution
A Software Engineering Intelligence Platform, which uses patented technology to analyze source code with no additional software installations on developers' computers, and no extra input from developers, providing:
- Leading indicators that monitor the capability of the process, such as predictability, efficiency, rework, and developer happiness
- Effectively communicate their team's contributions to the company's success.
- Meaningful insights into the health and progress of their projects, directly linking operational excellence to business goals.
What you will gain
Maximized Productivity
- Boost Productivity: Measure and optimize the efficiency of knowledge acquisition and application to deliver value faster.
- Minimize Waste: Reduce errors and rework by identifying areas with high information loss rate and making necessary adjustments.
- Improve Capability: Benchmark and elevate efficiency across teams, projects, and programs, driving consistent growth and performance.
Improved Developer Experience
- Foster a Positive Work Environment: Monitor and enhance developer happiness, contributing to a motivated and enthusiastic team.
- Achieve Reduced Cognitive Load: Quantify mental effort required for tasks, allowing for task simplification and better task allocation to manage developer complexities.
- Increase Collaboration: Gain insights into the efficiency of information acquisition relative to the number of active developers, ensuring smooth communication and cohesive teamwork.
Aligned leadership team
- Demystify Data with Intuitive Metrics: Use metrics that resonate with and are easily understood by the entire leadership team, promoting alignment with the CEO, HR, Project Managers, Program Managers, and Engineering Managers. .
- Bridge Developer Experience with Business Productivity: Correlate the well-being of developers with the economic outcomes, emphasizing the direct impact of a motivated team on productivity.
- Validate the Impact of their Management Practices: Equip managers with objective data to confidently justify their strategies to other leadership members, ensuring that practices are in line with organizational growth objectives.
How It Works
KnowCount platform has three main functions: preparing input data, calculating Knowledge gaps, and presenting results visually or in Excel files.
When starting a new project:
- Identify the skills needed for the project.
- Determine the expertise required to complete the work successfully
- Assess the skills gap. Compare the required skills to the existing skills within the team.
- Determine the budget required to acquire the necessary skills.
- Compare the required budget to the allocated budget and assess what is financially feasible
improvement Actions
- Prioritize training efforts based on the impact of specific skill gaps on project success.
- Evaluate the project skills readiness of the teams involved.
- Ensure the project starts at an acceptable risk level, balancing skills readiness, budget, and timeline constraints.
Getting started
