I open-sourced the cockpit we used to understand huge engineering departments in days

Description and use

Deckgauge is an open-source dashboard that consolidates Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps data into a single cockpit, enabling rapid insight into team focus, engineer workload, and CapEx vs OpEx.

Problem

Engineering leaders need rapid, data-driven insight into how teams are operating, what they are building, and who is carrying the load, but existing tools require weeks of meetings and manual mapping.

Outcome

Deckgauge enabled Codpal to replace weeks of meetings with a single data‑driven cockpit, allowing leadership to make informed decisions on day one and demonstrating the feasibility of AI‑built engineering tools.

Workflow

• 1. Connect Deckgauge to Jira, GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps via API.
• 2. Deckgauge ingests data into a single data warehouse.
• 3. Compute DORA metrics from delivery data.
• 4. Generate team focus and per-engineer workload views.
• 5. Visualize CapEx vs OpEx and org‑chart board.
• 6. Review insights with leadership and adjust strategy.

Evidence

Deckgauge pulls Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps into a single data warehouse of development information, and gives you the cockpit picture:

Source

Deckgauge was largely built by AI agents (Claude Code with an agent workflow) — human-reviewed on every merge.

Source