wrouvre/tech-radar

Visualizing our technology choices

Motivation

At Ippon, we maintain a Practices Radar based on Zalando one public Tech Radar to help our engineering & saff teams align on technology choices. It is based on the pioneering work by ThoughtWorks.

This repository contains the code to generate the visualization: radar.js (based on d3.js v4). Feel free to use and adapt it for your own purposes.

Usage

1. Insert practice file into practices directory, composed by Quadrants & Entry definitions:

const dataRadar = {
  // Quadrants (limited to 4)
  quadrants: [
      { name: "..." },
  ],

  // Rings : 0=ADOPT ; 1=TRIAL ; 2=ASSESS ; 3=HOLD

  // Entries
  entries: [
    {
      quadrant: 0, // quadrant reference [number]
      ring: 0, // ring reference [number]
      label: "Amazing tech", // entry name [text]
      active: true, // entry visible [bool]
      description: "Lorem ipsum <i>arcu</i> non dapibus.", // entry description modal [text/html]
      moved: 0, // entry evolution [-1/0/1]
    },
    ...
  ]
}

2. Include the practice definition into 'practices.js' file :

const practices = [
    {
        name: "DataRadar",
        radar: dataRadar
    }
]

3. Add the practice file into index.html :

  <script src="practices/data.js"></script>

Local Development

1. install dependencies with yarn (or npm):

yarn 

2. start local dev server:

yarn start

3. your default browser should automatically open and show the url

http://localhost:3000/

License

The MIT License (MIT)

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