Commit-to-Ticket Reconciliation Dashboard for Sprint Retrospectives
Why This is an Opportunity
This solves the disconnect between project management tools and actual code output. Teams that require ticket IDs in commit messages still have gaps — developers forget, use wrong formats, or do work that genuinely doesn't have a ticket. The result is sprint velocity metrics that don't reflect reality. The solution is straightforward: paste or import a commit log for a date range, extract ticket ID patterns (JIRA-123, #456, etc.), compare against a pasted list of completed tickets, and generate a reconciliation report showing matched commits, orphan commits, and tickets with no commits. Pure parsing and comparison logic — no integrations required beyond paste-in data.
Key Pain Points
- •Sprint retrospectives rely on Jira ticket counts that don't reflect actual development effort
- •Orphan commits representing hotfixes, tech debt, and config changes are invisible in project management tools
- •Engineering managers have no quick way to see which completed tickets have zero associated commits (potentially false completions)
- •Manually cross-referencing Git logs against ticket systems takes 1-2 hours per sprint per team
- •Velocity metrics are unreliable because significant development work happens outside the ticketing system
Original Discovery
At the end of every sprint, engineering managers face an awkward question: what actually shipped versus what was planned? Jira says 12 tickets were completed, but the Git log shows 47 commits touching code that doesn't map to any ticket. Orphan commits — hotfixes, undocumented refactors, config changes — represent invisible work that never shows up in sprint metrics. A reconciliation dashboard that cross-references commit messages against ticket IDs and surfaces unlinked work would give engineering leaders an honest picture of where development time actually went.
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