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Pulse

Pulse combines Terrabuild executions with GitHub pull requests, reviews, and comments. It groups metrics by the question they help answer and keeps the underlying builds or GitHub records available as evidence.

Pulse is not a developer scorecard. A metric indicates where to investigate; it does not establish cause or individual performance.

Activity​

Activity shows completed pull requests, Terrabuild runs, observed releases, and estimated build time saved through reuse. Compare complete weeks or months and filter by repository, team, or contributor.

Involvement​

Involvement counts distinct people who triggered Terrabuild runs for a selected repository project. It can reveal where delivery knowledge is concentrated, but it does not measure code ownership or productivity.

Flow​

Flow asks whether work is moving or waiting. Current measures include:

  • pull-request lifetime;
  • time to first human feedback;
  • time to first formal review;
  • concurrently open pull requests;
  • stale pull requests.

Feedback​

Feedback describes how quickly and reliably the delivery system reports on a change:

  • Terrabuild run duration;
  • success rate;
  • recovery time after a failed run.

Delivery​

Delivery uses configured release profiles to measure release interval and the time from merge to the first containing release. Without meaningful release rules, these measures do not have a reliable boundary.

Behavior​

Behavior highlights recurring differences inside the selected cohort, including pull-request size, concurrent work, and review concentration. Treat these as prompts to inspect workflow and team context.

Read a metric responsibly​

  1. Keep the repository, team, contributor, and time period stable while comparing values.
  2. Check how many observations support the result.
  3. Open the evidence rather than drawing a conclusion from the aggregate alone.
  4. Look for a persistent pattern instead of reacting to one short period.
  5. Discuss system conditions before attributing the result to a person.

GitHub and Terrabuild provide different parts of the evidence. Connect both to use the full Pulse model.