Set targets for your key metrics

Key metrics show you where your engineering organization stands today. Now you can also show where you want it to go.

You can set a target at the organization level, and it applies to all of your teams. From there, you can adjust the target for individual teams where it makes sense. If an organization-wide target isn’t a fit, you can skip it and only set targets team by team instead.

Improvement projects tend to go better when everyone knows what they’re aiming for. Targets make that goal visible to everyone who looks at the metric, not just the people who set it.

When you set a target, the selector plots your teams against Swarmia benchmark ranges. Targets that are too far out of reach don’t help anyone, so it’s a good idea to start from where your teams are.

Once a target is in place, you’ll see it on the key metric cards and in the table. The sparkline on the card highlights when a team dips below its target, so you can spot the change without digging into the data.

Admins can set targets for any key metric today.