Beta v1.1 Notes: Executive Summary, Multiple repositories, and What's Ahead - October 2, 2023
Happy Monday, all.
Here's what's new in v1.1 of the CTO Dashboard Beta.
Thanks to the Beta users who gave us quite helpful (and candid!!) feedback on v1.0. We have incorporated those improvements and are ready to add a few more users.
If your organization uses GitHub and at least one of Snyk for Code Security or Wati's i-RADAR for Cyber Security, and you'd like to join the beta, let us know.
In these release notes:
1. Repository summarization to make it easier to keep track of many repositories.
2. New Executive Summary functionality.
3. A preview of the future of the Executive Summary.
You can also watch a 7.5 minute explainer video: link here.
1. Repository summarization to make it easier to keep track of many repositories.
When organizations have fewer than 10 repos, we've found it's sensible to see all of those repos at once on a chart. Beyond 10, it becomes too much of an "eye chart."
So now if there are 10 or more repos, you see the process charts showing the total activity, not by repo.
2. New Executive Summary functionality.
We are building this product to make it easier for CTOs to share a contextualized summary of their codebase -- whether it's at standup, at the end of a sprint, with the C-Suite or their Board.
To that end, we're introducing an Executive Summary, which summarizes the key metrics of codebase health and risk into overall scores, including a single 1-100 "Sema Score."
In the first iteration, we are summarizing the results of one metric, specifically a code security metric of high-risk SAST and DAST warnings, relative to codebases of similar sizes and stages.
In our Sandbox codebase example, the number of high-risk security warnings is in the lowest quartile of its comparison group, so the Sema Score gets the maximum 100 points. Trust us it won't always be 100, and shouldn't be -- scores of 30-70 reflect reasonable investments in non-functional requirements.
3. A preview of the future of the Executive Summary.
This is our second product, we've been working on collecting Executive-ready Engineering metrics for the last six years.
With our first product, we can capture information about Code Quality, Development Process, Development Team, Open Source Legal Risk, Code Security, and Cyber Security at once-- using our code scanning tools. WIth the CTO Dashboard, you'll be able to use your own existing tools to see the same kind of executive results.
Here's a view of a report from our first product so you can see what's coming for the Executive Summary.