# Data-driven Goals and Reporting | LinearB - Translate Engineering Performance into Business Outcomes

> Create a culture of continuous improvement with data-driven goal setting, executive reporting and custom dashboards.

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Features

# Goals and Reporting

Is your team performance improving every sprint?

Set the right targets, enable your devs to do their best work, and tie engineering throughput to the bottom line.

[Book a demo](https://linearb.io/book-a-demo)
[Start free trial](https://linearb.io/start-free-trial)

![Merged Without Review](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_fit,w_2560,h_2220/f_auto/q_auto/v1/feature-gar-hero?_a=BAVMn6ID0)

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## Take your goal-setting to the next level

### Understand your current performance

Compare your metrics against industry benchmarks to identify gaps and pinpoint problem areas.

### Align your people and projects

Set goals to maximize software delivery and stay focused on business priorities.

### Apply and standardize best practices

Establish data integrity best practices that safeguard against issues slipping through the cracks.

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## Automate your improvement

### Hit your goals every time

Use programmable workflows to reduce cognitive load, foster developer flow states, and drive teams to adopt new processes without adding management overhead.

![Hit your goals every time](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/feature-gar-1?_a=BAVMn6ID0)

### Take control of your workflow

Optimize merge pathways to ensure every pull request finds the safest and quickest route to merge.

![Take control of your workflow](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/feature-gar-2?_a=BAVMn6ID0)

LinearB provides tools and insights that help ensure our teams and resources are aligned with our broader business goals and objectives.

Marko T.

CTO, Assignar

## Translate engineering performance into business outcomes

### Show stakeholders the right data

Create custom dashboards that provide transparency into how your organization is performing.

![Show stakeholders the right data](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/feature-gar-3?_a=BAVMn6ID0)

### Be informed of the facts

No more murkiness – use leading indicator metrics to see exactly where things are breaking down and prescribe the right solutions to your team.

![Be informed of the facts](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_limit,w_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/feature-gar-4?_a=BAVMn6ID0)

[View all of our goals and reporting documentation](https://linearb.io/platform/goals-and-reporting/features)

## Explore the entire platform

[Developer coaching](https://linearb.io/platform/developer-coaching)

## Chart your course to elite status with data-backed goals

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