Writing on engineering intelligence, DORA done right, and measuring delivery without surveillance. From the team behind the open-source Deckgauge platform.https://deckgauge.com/en-gbhttps://deckgauge.com/og/default.pnghttps://deckgauge.com/https://deckgauge.com/blog/local-llm-engineering-analytics/https://deckgauge.com/blog/local-llm-engineering-analytics/The Advisor answers questions about one board using real, grounded data. Three ways to give it a model — a fully local Ollama instance, the Claude Code or Codex already signed in on your machine, or your own API key — and the honest trade-off between privacy and capability.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/dora-metrics-azure-devops/https://deckgauge.com/blog/dora-metrics-azure-devops/Azure DevOps holds Repos, Pipelines, Releases and Boards — and computes none of the four DORA metrics. Which two you can derive cleanly from ADO data, which two need an incident signal it does not record, and why so many dashboards quietly substitute pipeline failure rate for change failure rate.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/dora-metrics-from-jira/https://deckgauge.com/blog/dora-metrics-from-jira/Jira records no deployment reaching production, so two of the four DORA metrics are structurally out of reach from Jira alone. What you can measure, why “lead time” means two different things, and the queue data Jira is genuinely the best source for.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/open-source-jellyfish-linearb-alternative/https://deckgauge.com/blog/open-source-jellyfish-linearb-alternative/Jellyfish and LinearB are strong engineering-intelligence platforms with per-seat pricing and your data in their cloud. A feature-by-feature comparison against Deckgauge — DORA, flow, investment allocation, pricing, self-hosting effort — and an honest account of where the paid tools still win.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/open-source-swarmia-alternative/https://deckgauge.com/blog/open-source-swarmia-alternative/Swarmia is the benchmark for team-level developer-experience metrics, and it is SaaS. A detailed comparison with Deckgauge — what maps one-to-one, what does not exist on either side, pricing at 25 and 100 engineers, and how to run a two-week trial before you commit.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/devlake-database-vs-product/https://deckgauge.com/blog/devlake-database-vs-product/Apache DevLake is excellent open-source data plumbing, and then you build the dashboards yourself in Grafana. A concrete comparison of what each one gives you on day one, what setup actually costs in hours, and which of the two you should pick.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/self-hosted-dora-metrics-open-source/https://deckgauge.com/blog/self-hosted-dora-metrics-open-source/Want DORA metrics without a SaaS holding your data? An honest look at the self-hosted, open-source options — Apache DevLake, Middleware and Deckgauge — and how to choose.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/how-to-measure-engineering-productivity/https://deckgauge.com/blog/how-to-measure-engineering-productivity/Which metrics actually reflect engineering productivity (DORA, flow, review), which mislead, and how to measure teams without surveilling individuals.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/how-codpal-built-deckgauge/https://deckgauge.com/blog/how-codpal-built-deckgauge/CodPal built Deckgauge to step into any company as a fractional CTO and understand delivery fast — one board over Jira, GitHub, Azure DevOps and Monday.com, the real bottlenecks, and a roadmap for leadership. Here’s the story, and why it’s now open source.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/dora-metrics-without-gaming-them/https://deckgauge.com/blog/dora-metrics-without-gaming-them/The four DORA metrics are only useful if teams don’t game them. How to measure deployment frequency, lead time, change-failure rate and restore time honestly — at team level, as a conversation, not a scoreboard.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/measuring-engineers-without-surveillance/https://deckgauge.com/blog/measuring-engineers-without-surveillance/Engineering metrics don’t have to mean surveillance. Measure delivery supportively — team aggregates, finding who needs a hand instead of who to punish, and individual figures treated as decision support rather than a rating.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMThttps://deckgauge.com/blog/prove-your-copilot-roi/https://deckgauge.com/blog/prove-your-copilot-roi/Copilot seats cost real money, and acceptance rate doesn’t prove ROI. Measure AI coding-assistant value with delivery data: AI-assisted PR share, throughput and cycle-time deltas, with quality guardrails.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT