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Overview

Engineering Manager Dashboard with PR Cycle Time, Investment Allocation, and Sprint Velocity charts
The Engineering Manager Dashboard automation helps engineering leaders stay on top of team progress without manual manual status compilation. This scheduled automation pulls real-time data from your development and tracking systems (such as GitHub, Linear, Jira, and Sentry) to generate a comprehensive daily report of sprint health, PR cycles, and production stability. With this automation active, Zenflow automatically spawns a background agent task every morning to query engineering metrics, compile team-wide progress, and publish a live-rendered HTML dashboard directly in your workspace.

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How It Works

This workspace automation executes according to your configured schedule (typically every weekday morning) and follows a structured execution pipeline:
1

Spawn Scheduled Task

At the configured execution time, Zenflow launches a standalone task titled Run Engineering Manager Dashboard using the Auto workflow.
2

Locate and Verify Skill

The agent searches for the globally installed engineering-manager skill across standard agent execution paths on the host machine.
3

Automatic Installation

If the skill is not found, the agent automatically installs it globally using the Zencoder package registry, ensuring zero-configuration execution.
4

Compile Metrics & Generate Dashboard

The agent reads the loaded skill specification, executes the underlying DORA metrics, sprint pulse, and Jira/Linear queries, and compiles the live dashboard report.

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How to Install & Configure

Setting up the Engineering Manager Dashboard is straightforward. You can configure it from scratch or initialize it using the pre-built template in Zenflow.

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Quick Start with Templates

  1. Open Zenflow and click the thunderbolt icon in the left sidebar to navigate to the Automations view.
  2. Scroll to the Templates section at the bottom of the page and click the Engineering tab.
Engineering Templates Category Tab
  1. Locate the Engineering Manager Dashboard card.
Engineering Manager Dashboard Template Card
  1. Click Use template.
  2. Customize the schedule, target workspace, and execution settings in the modal dialog, and click Create.

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Custom Installation Details

When creating or modifying the automation, the underlying execution flow is configured as follows:
Create Engineering Manager Automation dialog
When the automation executes, the agent follows these explicit technical instructions:
The agent checks for a globally installed skill by verifying the following local paths in order:
  • ~/.agents/skills/engineering-manager/SKILL.md
  • ~/.zencoder/skills/engineering-manager/SKILL.md
  • ~/.codex/skills/engineering-manager/SKILL.md
  • ~/.claude/skills/engineering-manager/SKILL.md
  • ~/.gemini/skills/engineering-manager/SKILL.md
If the skill is not present in any of the checked paths, the agent automatically triggers a global installation:
npx skills add zencoderai/skill-engineering-manager -g -y
Once the command completes, the agent re-scans the directories to locate the newly installed SKILL.md file.
The agent reads and parses the SKILL.md file from the identified path to initialize the specialized prompts, workflows, and execution context.
The agent executes the dashboard generation sequence outlined in the skill, compiling:
  • PR Health: Analysis of open pull requests, review cycle times, and staleness
  • Sprint Pulse: Updates on active sprint progress from Linear or Jira
  • DORA Metrics: Investment allocation and deployment frequency
  • Sentry Alerts: Unresolved critical production exceptions
For the best results, we recommend setting up the automation with the following default parameters:
Configuration FieldRecommended Setting
ScheduleWeekdays (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri) at 08:00 am
Task NameRun Engineering Manager Dashboard
RepositoryNo repository (Runs standalone to aggregate multiple external platforms)
Using WorkflowAuto
Agent ModelZencoder Default