An yearly rite of passage for most all software developers is their official Annual Performance Review, where managers and developer convene to discuss what went well in the past year, and what can be improved in the year to come.
In concept, the strategy to pause and reflect on which projects have gone well is a solid one. In practice, the potential impact of the Annual Performance Review is almost always blunted by the limitations in what the Manager and Reviewer can recall about the past 12 months.
GitClear's Annual Performance Reviews, located in the "Work in Review" => "Annual Reviews" tab, summarizes the highlights of what was accomplished in the past year. This can eliminate hours of busywork that is required to cross-reference GitHub commit history, Jira tickets, and pull request history. With the Annual Reviews tab, you get all the high points from the past year bundled into a browse-friendly, print-friendly format.
Sections of the "Annual Review" tab:
linkPinpoint Domain Expertise
Where has a developer provided most value relative to their teammates? The Domain Expert table illustrates the types of code where a developer has led their team.
linkAll Biggest Issues
This table shows the 12 biggest issue tracker tickets that the user worked on over the selected time range, by Diff Delta.
linkBiggest Issues by Month
This table shows the biggest issue, branch or pull request that the developer worked on over each month of the time interval.
Whether the work had a Jira ticket associated with it or not, GitClear can pick out the biggest feature worked during each month
linkChangelogs in Review
Even if a developer's team does not wish to use Snap Changelogs to publish the team's work to the public, individual developers can still upload screenshots of their work for their own record-keeping. This ad hoc record-keeping can be very time-saving when "Developer Review" season rolls around. Instead of the chore of digging through Jira, past emails, commit history, etc, a developer who gets in the habit of pasting "work in progress" screenshots to pages with "The Boot" will automatically generate a visual gallery of their triumphs from the past year.
A paginated list of Changelogs from the developer's past year are available at the bottom of their "Annual Review" tab