How To Calculate Merge Request Rate in TeamSupport | Arithmix

If you're working in a team environment, you know that collaboration is key. And when it comes to software development, merging code is a crucial part of the process. But how do you measure the effectiveness of your team's merging efforts? That's where merge request rate comes in.

What Is Merge Request Rate?

Merge request rate is a metric that measures the number of merge requests that are opened and closed within a certain period of time. Essentially, it tells you how quickly your team is merging code and resolving conflicts. This metric is often used in agile development environments to track progress and identify areas for improvement.

Calculating merge request rate is relatively simple. You just need to divide the number of merge requests closed by the total number of merge requests opened during a specific timeframe. For example, if your team closed 20 merge requests out of 30 opened in the last week, your merge request rate would be 66.7%.

When Is It Valuable To Calculate Merge Request Rate?

There are a few scenarios where calculating merge request rate can be particularly valuable:

• Identifying bottlenecks: If your merge request rate is consistently low, it could be a sign that there are bottlenecks in your development process. Perhaps there are too many code reviews or not enough resources to handle the workload. By tracking merge request rate over time, you can pinpoint where the issues are and make adjustments.
• Tracking progress: Merge request rate can be a helpful way to track progress over time. If your team is consistently increasing its merge request rate, it's a good indication that you're making progress and becoming more efficient.
• Encouraging collaboration: By tracking merge request rate, you can encourage collaboration among team members. When everyone is working together to merge code quickly and efficiently, it can lead to a more productive and cohesive team.

Overall, merge request rate is a valuable metric for any team that wants to improve its software development process. By tracking this metric over time and making adjustments as needed, you can ensure that your team is working together effectively and efficiently.

How Do You Calculate Merge Request Rate in TeamSupport

TeamSupport itself isn’t naturally geared towards letting you calculate complex metrics like Merge Request Rate. As an alternative, teams typically use products like Arithmix to import data from TeamSupport and build out dashboards.

What is Arithmix?

Arithmix is the next generation spreadsheet - a collaborative, web-based platform for working with numbers that’s powerful yet easy to use. With Arithmix you can import data from systems like TeamSupport, combine it with data from other systems, and create calculations like Merge Request Rate.

In Arithmix, data is organized into Tables and referenced by name, not by cell location like a spreadsheet, simplifying calculation creation. Data and calculations can be shared with others and re-used like building blocks, vastly streamlining analysis, model building, and reporting in a highly scalable and easy to maintain platform. Data can be edited, categorized (by dimensions) and freely pivoted. Calculations are automatically copied across a dimension - eliminating copy and paste of formulas.

Arithmix is fully collaborative, giving your entire team access to your numbers and the ability to work together seamlessly.

Calculating Merge Request Rate in Arithmix

Calculating metrics like Merge Request Rate is simple in Arithmix. Once you've created your free account, you’ll be able to import your TeamSupport data, and use it to create natural language formulas for metrics like Merge Request Rate.

Arithmix is designed to give you the power to build any calculations you want on top of your TeamSupport data, while also being easy to use and collaborate on. You can share your dashboards with users inside and outside of your organisation, making it easy to empower your whole team.