Allstacks vs. minware
Allstacks is a niche player in the development analytics space. Their main strength is advanced project completion tracking metrics, but they also offer a variety of other charts.
However, they haven’t adopted modern data methods.
If you want to actually get better at planning, quality, and process efficiency with actionable metrics, Allstacks’ first-generation platform is inadequate.
The problem with first-gen metrics
Allstacks’ first-gen metrics rely on existing data fields (PR cycle time, deployment count, etc.) They will get in you in the right ballpark, but are:
Lagging, unactionable
They tell you what happened, but not what caused it. Why are cycle times slow – is it interruptions, bad estimates, large tickets? How do I get better?
Disconnected from impact
Allstacks’ metrics use arbitrary unit counts (tickets, PRs, etc.), which don’t tell you what matters.
Cumbersome and manual
If you want additional visibility (work type, tech debt, active dev effort, etc.), you have to painstakingly label tickets or log time by hand.
“Instead of AI replacing engineers, maybe it should replace tedious non-engineering work that wastes their time.”
Kevin Borders
Founder & CEO, minware
Next-gen data models offer insights without effort
Next-gen data models use modern methods to derive metrics with higher-level meaning (e.g., active development time per ticket) that are:
Actionable
See exactly where problems lie so you know where to improve.
Impact-Focused
Measure the effect on available engineering time instead of arbitrary unit counts.
Automatic
Compute high-level properties without having to log time, impose mandatory fields, or change the way you work.
Next-gen data models answer real questions
CEOs don't ask about Allstacks metrics like cycle times. Next-gen data models answer real questions like these (links go to live demo):
minQL and BI report builder let you customize anything
Allstacks has a large number of pre-defined reports and lets you select a variety of fields in each one, but each report is locked in place.
All minware reports are built on top of the minQL query language and fully editable. Access any field from any data source to create custom metrics with powerful formulas, including custom event cycle times.
Say goodbye to spreadsheets and SQL.
Zero-effort setup
There's a lot you can do with Allstacks, but you have to spend a lot of time setting it up.
We’ve invested heavily in making minware work out-of-the box with fully automated configuration and no process changes. All you need to do is hook up version control and ticketing systems with a few clicks, then access the full library of reports.
No story points? No sprints? No tickets in PRs? No Org Chart? Different usernames in Git/Jira? Crazy ticket statuses? No problem, we’ll figure it out.
Setup Difficulty
minware
Allstacks
Intensive (Weeks)
Self-Service (Hours)
Zero Effort
Why choose Allstacks over minware?
This question may be the opposite of what you were expecting.
Allstacks has put a lot of effort into their project completion tracker, and is really good at that one thing.
If all you want to do is track project completion, then minware is not as optimized around that single use case and is probably overkill in other areas.
However, if you want to get better at building software, not just tracking projects...
