Active Days
Represents the number of days a contributor was active, tracking code commited and pull request activity.
How to use it?
- Track Activity: Ensures consistent engagement and steady development progress across the team.
Identify Burnout Risks: Highlights potential burnout or underuse by analyzing trends in active days, enabling proactive workload adjustments. - Set Performance Benchmarks: Helps standardize performance metrics and goals, fostering clear and fair expectations.
Strategic Use of Active Days
- Manage Workloads: Regular analysis of Active Days helps balance team workloads, preventing overwhelm and ensuring productivity.
- Address Productivity Issues: Decreases in Active Days can indicate engagement issues, necessitating check-ins to provide support or adjust responsibilities.
- Quality Over Quantity: High activity with frequent Pull Request rejections suggests a need for skill enhancement or mentorship, emphasizing quality of contributions.
Considerations for Implementation
- Complementary Metric: Active Days should complement other productivity and quality metrics, not serve as the sole indicator of performance.
- Cultural Sensitivity: Implement with an awareness of team culture to avoid perceptions of surveillance.
- Feedback and Adjustment: Regularly review and refine the use of Active Days based on team feedback and project evolution.
Updated 5 months ago