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Hatica

Score9.4 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

What is Hatica?

Hatica equips engineering teams with work visibility dashboards, actionable insights and workflows to drive team productivity and engagement in remote and in-office environments alike. The vendor offers a free forever plan to help get started.

Features:
  • Engineering metrics dashboards
  • 100+ metrics from 20+ apps including Github, Jira, Slack, Zoom, Google Workplace
  • Remote work insights
  • Aggregated work overview, sprint and retro dashboards
  • DORA metrics, CI/CD performance insights and code review analytics
  • Collaboration analytics
  • Team Goals based on dev metrics
  • Async stand-ups and developer check-ins via Slack and Email
  • Code quality metrics
  • Automated Code reviews

Media

Code cycle time dashboard: Used to track and measure first commit-to-deployment cycle time to identify trends, bottlenecks, and pain points.
Team Well-being: Offers insight into team well-being metrics like focus time, meeting time (and its breakdown), and other metrics.
Resource Allocation: Provides insight into data and trends around how business strategy translates into engineering work.
DORA: Helps to understand DevOps' release velocity and quality.
Project Delivery Dashboard: Reveals sprint-over-sprint trends around sprint health, planning and delivery, importance of work, and work allocation.
Activity Log: Calendarized view to help visualize work actions, spot trends in unbalanced workload, and be less hands-on.
Dev Metric Grid: Users can pull metrics from different dashboards to get a holistic understanding of engineering teams’ processes and well-being.

1 / 7

In line with the SPACE framework

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I really believe in the comprehensive engineering management approach of the SPACE framework. I couldn’t find a tool that put the framework into practice, especially combining developers’ digital well-being and experience and productivity metrics. But I discovered Hatica and after using the platform and speaking with the founders about their approach to dev management, I am convinced that Hatica is the best tool to manage engineering productivity.

Pros

  • Helps engineering team productivity
  • better management of developer happiness and work life balance

Cons

  • There are so many metrics that you’re able to measure - it can get overwhelming at first
  • We had a walkthrough session with the founder that helped us approach the platform with more confidence so maybe they can include help documents for first-time users

Return on Investment

  • Productivity and long term health of team
  • Better team management and allocation of work

Essential for tech teams to analyze the quality and contributions of devs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Easy to use

Deep visibility into team contributions, performance & blockers

Hands-on support from the founders themselves

Relevant and apt use cases.

I highly recommend engineering teams to give Hatica a try!

Pros

  • Visibility into team activity
  • Can easily identify bottlenecks and resolve them

Cons

  • Their UX has been improved with every release. So I’m hoping to see it get better and more intuitive.

Return on Investment

  • Better team management because we can avoid blockers and help the tech team to work seamlessly

Great tool to boost the performance of software dev teams ###

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Integrates with every tool our team uses.

Easy access to the most important metrics, especially the meeting & communication metrics has helped us improve our communication processes.

Quick summary of developers’ contribution, well-being, and other fundamental metrics saves time and gives valuable insights

Pros

  • Meeting metrics to improve team commuication
  • Provides engineering metrics for better team management
  • Really useful for distributed teams

Cons

  • Some dashboards have a learning curve as they are more complex than others - would like to see easier dashboards

Return on Investment

  • Metrics dashboards give very valuable insights that help team processes and alignment

Great experience!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

So far having a great experience with Hatica. I really like the DORA metrics and the maker time dashboard which are useful to measure my team’s meeting load and also identify whether they have enough time to concentrate on serious projects.

Pros

  • Great dashboards for engg metrics
  • Very helpful to maintain work load and to give attention to important tasks

Cons

  • No support to customise dashboards.
  • Lots of metrics so need some time to learn

Return on Investment

  • Amazing workload management
  • DORA metrics dashboard is great

Helps us take proactive action and deliver results on schedule

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The reports feature makes our team management more proactive. We are able to identify and deal with issues as they occur rather than solve problems after they occur, and this has helped our team to deliver results without delays.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Insights and reports delivered to an email
  • Good insights

Cons

  • The platform is still new, so there are some potential avenues for improvement which I believe they’re working on. I’m excited about the new features that are in the pipeline.

Return on Investment

  • We are more confident of delivery deadlines