ZenHub Analytics: The Missing Gap in Your Sprint Planning

Every engineering manager has been there. You're sitting in a sprint planning meeting, or worse, a quarterly business review, and you're asked: "Is the team getting faster or slower?"

If you use ZenHub, you have the data. But finding the answer is surprisingly difficult.

While ZenHub is a world-class project management tool, many teams find a significant gap between "managing tasks" and "managing performance." This gap is where sprint planning becomes guesswork rather than science.

The Blind Spots in Native ZenHub Reporting

ZenHub provides basic velocity charts and burndowns. However, for a team looking to scale or a manager reporting to leadership, three major blind spots often emerge:

1. The Cross-Workspace Void

Most modern engineering organizations don't live in a single repository or workspace. You likely have front-end, back-end, and infrastructure projects separated. ZenHub makes it easy to switch between them, but notoriously difficult to see aggregated velocity across your entire technical stack in one view.

2. Contextless Velocity

Velocity is just a number until you compare it to the in-progress workload. Native reports often show you what was done, but they don't easily visualize the ratio of Closed vs. In-Progress issues in real-time. Without this context, you can't see the "bottleneck" until the sprint is already over.

3. The Spreadsheet "Tax"

Because the native reports are often too siloed, managers end up paying the "spreadsheet tax"—spending 2-4 hours every Friday exporting data to Excel or Google Sheets just to create a clean chart for stakeholders.

How ZenStat Bridges the Analytics Gap

We built ZenStat to be the analytics layer that ZenHub was missing. It doesn’t replace ZenHub; it makes the data you already have actually useful for decision-making.

• Unified Dashboards: See metrics across multiple workspaces in a single, beautiful interface.
• Real-Time Insight: No more waiting for "Report Generation." See exactly where your story points are moving right now.
• Leadership Ready: Export-ready visualizations that you can confidently show to a VP of Engineering without having to explain what a "pipeline" is.

Move from Guesswork to Data-Driven Planning

Stop guessing how much your team can commit to in the next sprint. By filling the analytics gap, you can improve team morale (by avoiding over-commitment) and increase predictability.

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