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# Glossary

[AI Assistant](./glossary/ai-assistant)

Chat interface for managers: “Show me top blockers this week”

[AI-Generated Insights](./glossary/ai-generated-insights)

LLM analyzes PRs, comments & patterns to suggest improvements

[Aligned with Roadmap](./glossary/aligned-with-roadmap)

Work contributing to quarterly OKRs or strategic initiatives

[Attrition Rate](./glossary/attrition-rate)

% of engineers leaving voluntarily per year (target: <10%)

[Bug](./glossary/bug)

Functional defect in production or pre-release code

[Calendar](./glossary/calendar)

Scheduled meetings reducing available focus time

[Change Failure Rate](./glossary/change-failure-rate)

% of production deploys that cause incidents or rollbacks

[Change Throughput](./glossary/change-throughput)

PRs merged per week, normalized by team size

[Circle CI Competency Framework](./glossary/circle-ci-competency-framework)

Levels 1–5 in pipeline design, testing, security, observability

[Clear Guidance](./glossary/clear-guidance)

Specific, metric-driven recommendations for managers to coach effectively

[Collaboration Baseline](./glossary/collaboration-baseline)

Expected review depth, response time, cross-team PRs

[Comment](./glossary/comment)

Feedback left on PR diff, ticket thread or design doc

[Continuous Feedback](./glossary/continuous-feedback)

Regular, data-informed 1:1s & async feedback loops to improve performance

[Continuous Improvement](./glossary/continuous-improvement)

Small, frequent process tweaks backed by data

[Continuous Improvement Culture](./glossary/continuous-improvement-culture)

Team norm: retros, experiments, kaizen events

[Core Competences of a Developer](./glossary/core-competences-of-a-developer)

Coding, system design, testing, collaboration, ownership

[Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT)](./glossary/customer-satisfaction-score-(csat))

Post-release survey: “How satisfied are you?” (1–5)

[Cycle Time](./glossary/cycle-time)

From task start (e.g. “in progress”) to done (merged/deployed)

[Daily Standup](./glossary/daily-standup)

15-min team sync: what I did, will do, blockers

[Data-Backed Insights](./glossary/data-backed-insights)

Conclusions drawn from unified Git, Jira, CI/CD & calendar data

[Data-Driven Culture](./glossary/data-driven-culture)

Decisions based on metrics, A/B tests, not opinions

[Deploy Time](./glossary/deploy-time)

Duration from merge to production (CI/CD pipeline runtime)

[Developer Focus Time](./glossary/developer-focus-time)

Uninterrupted deep work blocks (ideal: 4+ hrs/day)

[Developer Productivity Metric](./glossary/developer-productivity-metric)

Composite score: output × quality × velocity × sustainability

[Development Time](./glossary/development-time)

Hours from “in dev” to “ready for review”

[Effort Allocation](./glossary/effort-allocation)

% time on features, bugs, tech debt, support, learning

[Empowered Managers](./glossary/empowered-managers)

Given data, budget & authority to fix team issues fast

[Engineer Net Promoter Score (eNPS)](./glossary/engineer-net-promoter-score-(enps))

“How likely to recommend this team?” (-100 to +100)

[Flow Time](./glossary/flow-time)

End-to-end duration from idea to value in production

[Hotfix Frequency](./glossary/hotfix-frequency)

Number of urgent post-release fixes per sprint (target: <1)

[Incident Resolution Time](./glossary/incident-resolution-time)

Total time from detection to permanent fix deployed

[Incident Response Time](./glossary/incident-response-time)

Minutes from alert to first engineer action

[KTLO](./glossary/ktlo)

“Keeping The Lights On” – operational, support & maintenance work

[Large Language Models](./glossary/large-language-models)

GPT-like models power summaries, risk detection & natural language queries

[Lead Time for Changes](./glossary/lead-time-for-changes)

Time from first commit to production deployment (DORA metric)

[Live Dashboards](./glossary/live-dashboards)

Auto-refreshing UIs showing current team state

[Live View of Work](./glossary/live-view-of-work)

Real-time Kanban of all in-flight PRs and tickets

[Manager Alignment](./glossary/manager-alignment)

% of time on strategy, coaching vs firefighting & admin

[Manager Context Switching](./glossary/manager-context-switching)

Number of meetings + Slack pings per day disrupting flow

[Mean Time Between Failures](./glossary/mean-time-between-failures)

Avg uptime between production-breaking incidents

[Mean Time to Recovery](./glossary/mean-time-to-recovery)

Avg duration to restore service after production incident

[Merge Time](./glossary/merge-time)

Hours from final approval to actual merge into main branch

[New Features](./glossary/new-features)

User-facing functionality delivering product or business value

[Onboarding Baseline](./glossary/onboarding-baseline)

Standard checklist + metrics for new hire integration

[One-on-One](./glossary/one-on-one)

Weekly 30-min manager-engineer sync on goals, blockers, growth

[Operational Maturity Level](./glossary/operational-maturity-level)

Stage 1–4: chaotic → reactive → standardized → optimized

[Pensero](./glossary/pensero)

AI-powered platform unifying dev metrics, AI insights & management tools for engineering leaders

[Performance Improvement Program](./glossary/performance-improvement-program)

30–90 day plan with metrics to address performance gaps

[Performance Management](./glossary/performance-management)

Ongoing cycle: set goals → track → review → improve

[Performance Measurement](./glossary/performance-measurement)

Systematic, fair tracking of individual & team contributions over time

[Performance Review](./glossary/performance-review)

Quarterly/annual formal assessment of impact & growth

[Privacy-First Platform](./glossary/privacy-first-platform)

Anonymized data, role-based access, no PII in analytics by default

[Proactive Support](./glossary/proactive-support)

AI flags at-risk engineers or processes before issues escalate

[Pull Request](./glossary/pull-request)

Proposed code change submitted via Git for review and merge

[Pull Request Review](./glossary/pull-request-review)

Peer code inspection with comments, approval or request changes

[Pull Request Size](./glossary/pull-request-size)

Total lines added + deleted; small = <200, large = >1000

[R&D Activation](./glossary/r-d-activation)

% of engineering time on innovation vs maintenance

[Real-Time Insights](./glossary/real-time-insights)

Live alerts on stalled PRs, high WIP, low focus time or rising tech debt

[Release Frequency](./glossary/release-frequency)

Average deploys per week (elite teams: multiple per day)

[Reporting for Everyone](./glossary/reporting-for-everyone)

Self-service dashboards for devs, PMs, designers

[Retention of Engineers](./glossary/retention-of-engineers)

% of devs still employed after 12 months (target: >90%)

[Review Cycles](./glossary/review-cycles)

Average rounds of feedback per PR before approval

[Review Depth](./glossary/review-depth)

Average comments per 100 lines changed in PR

[Review Load](./glossary/review-load)

Number of open PRs awaiting review per active reviewer

[Review Participation Rate](./glossary/review-participation-rate)

% of team members who reviewed at least one PR this week

[Review Time to Merge](./glossary/review-time-to-merge)

Median hours from first review to final merge (excl. author fixes)

[Rework](./glossary/rework)

Post-merge fixes due to bugs, review misses or scope changes

[Service Level Agreement (SLA)](./glossary/service-level-agreement-(sla))

Contractual commitment to customers (e.g. 99.95% availability)

[Service Level Objective (SLO)](./glossary/service-level-objective-(slo))

Internal reliability target (e.g. 99.9% uptime)

[Software Engineering Analytics](./glossary/software-engineering-analytics)

Statistical models on velocity, quality, burnout risk

[Software Engineering Dashboards](./glossary/software-engineering-dashboards)

Real-time, customizable views of team velocity, quality, focus & bottlenecks

[Software Engineering Data Unification](./glossary/software-engineering-data-unification)

Single schema joining Git, Jira, Slack, CI, calendar

[Software Engineering Impact Metric](./glossary/software-engineering-impact-metric)

Business value via features shipped, bugs fixed, SLOs met

[Software Engineering Intelligence](./glossary/software-engineering-intelligence)

Actionable analytics from code, PRs, tickets & tools to drive better engineering decisions

[Software Engineering KPIs](./glossary/software-engineering-kpis)

Core metrics: cycle time, PR size, review depth, deploy frequency, MTTR

[Software Engineering Management Platform](./glossary/software-engineering-management-platform)

All-in-one system to track, analyze & optimize engineering performance at scale

[Software Engineering Metrics Foundation](./glossary/software-engineering-metrics-foundation)

Standardized, tool-agnostic metric definitions

[Software Engineering Output](./glossary/software-engineering-output)

Features, bug fixes, refactors delivered to production

[Software Engineering Output Measurement](./glossary/software-engineering-output-measurement)

PRs merged + tickets closed, weighted by type & size

[Software Engineering Productivity](./glossary/software-engineering-productivity)

Measurable developer output balancing speed, quality, impact & sustainability

[Software Engineering Reporting](./glossary/software-engineering-reporting)

Automated weekly/monthly reports on KPIs, trends & risks for stakeholders

[Software Engineering Teams Scale](./glossary/software-engineering-teams-scale)

Metrics per headcount, not absolute (e.g. PRs/engineer)

[Story to Bug Ratio](./glossary/story-to-bug-ratio)

Features completed vs new bugs introduced per sprint

[Team Maturity Metric](./glossary/team-maturity-metric)

Score (1–5) on process, autonomy, tooling, predictability

[Team Observability](./glossary/team-observability)

Full telemetry into who’s doing what, when, how

[Team Productivity Score](./glossary/team-productivity-score)

Normalized index of velocity, quality & focus (0–100)

[Team Ramp-up Time](./glossary/team-ramp-up-time)

Weeks from start to first merged PR at full velocity

[Technical Debt Ratio](./glossary/technical-debt-ratio)

Estimated future cost of refactoring vs current velocity

[Ticket](./glossary/ticket)

Work item in issue tracker: bug, story, task, epic

[Time to Market](./glossary/time-to-market)

From approved idea to first customer use

[Time to Restore Service](./glossary/time-to-restore-service)

From incident detection to full customer recovery

[Tool Activity Data](./glossary/tool-activity-data)

Raw events: commit, comment, deploy, meeting join

[Transparent Performance Reviews](./glossary/transparent-performance-reviews)

Objective evaluations using contribution, quality & collaboration metrics

[Work Complexity](./glossary/work-complexity)

Estimated cognitive load from change size, file count & diff entropy

[Work Contribution](./glossary/work-contribution)

% of team output from each engineer (normalized)

[Work in Progress (WIP)](./glossary/work-in-progress-(wip))

Number of concurrent open tasks per engineer (limit: 2–3 ideal)

[Work Magnitude](./glossary/work-magnitude)

Total volume of PRs, tickets, LOC, comments per engineer/week

[Work Pattern Analysis](./glossary/work-pattern-analysis)

Detects deep work blocks, meeting overload, late-night commits, review gaps

[Work Signals](./glossary/work-signals)

Early indicators: silent devs, PR backlog, late merges

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