Continuous Integration Monitor
The Continuous Integration Monitor is a tool used by developers to keep track of the health of a project codebase. At Pivotal Labs we had CI Monitors throughout the office which displayed all of the client projects currently being worked on. This data set was the same as was used for the interactive video wall above. This instance of the data was designed for ultimate utility so that a developer can raise their head and quickly check the status of their project. I interviewed developers in the office to ensure that the right information was prioritized and accessible in terms of their ability to see and understand the information from anywhere in the office.
If a project is “healthy” it is colored green, if “broken” it is colored red, and a project with unknown status is grey. It also displays the time since last polled and the recent build history. The Velocity refers to how many tasks the team is able to address in a given week.