This quick start guide walks you through getting started with Uplevel, including ways to customize your dashboard to better suit your team’s working patterns, descriptions of Uplevel features and insights, specifics on why Uplevel metrics matter, and more.

Whether this is your first time logging into Uplevel (welcome!) or if you’re an Uplevel expert wanting to learn more, read this quick start guide for a summary and click the embedded links to dive in more!

This article covers:

• What is Uplevel and what do we measure?
• Setting up your Uplevel dashboard
  • Creating or editing teams in the Team Builder
  • Selecting your default team
  • Kanban in Uplevel
• Sprint Health
• Sprint Progress
• Sprint Retros
• Team Tiles
• Project Explorer
• 1:1 Reports
• Team Deep Dive
• People Health Overview
  • Always On
  • Context Switching
  • Deep Work
  • Chat Interruptions

What is Uplevel and what do we measure?

Uplevel is an engineering insights solution that combines data from engineering tools you use everyday to help you and your team members more reliably meet product release goals while fostering actionable support to prevent burnout.

Throughout our history, Uplevel has taken a stance that process improvement and achieving engineering success is a team sport. We believe:

1. Productivity is more than a single measurement. Each individual data point tells us something. Only by weaving it all together does data tell a story.
2. Data sparks effective conversations. Data is not a diagnosis. Instead, worthwhile analysis inspires discussions about “why”-and shapes next steps.
3. Everyone in the org deserves access to data. Our insights support developers, managers, and executives, because success relies on all of us.

Uplevel utilizes high-level data from Jira, code repos, messaging apps, and calendar to translate back insights to help teams improve the ability for devs to focus, increase work velocity, identify other previously unknown inefficiencies, and prevent burnout.