Kith Spark ties its community roadmap to KPIs it can actually defend

Kith Spark builds community-driven products, which means its roadmap is shaped by forum threads, support tickets, and feature requests as much as by a quarterly plan. Vindaris gave the team clear KPIs, activity synced in from Jira and Planner, and one dashboard that shows where progress is real.

Community work doesn't fit a static roadmap

Kith Spark's product decisions come from its community as much as from internal planning. That's a strength for relevance and a real problem for reporting: work was scattered across Jira for engineering, Planner for ops, and a set of KPIs tracked by hand in Excel and reviewed occasionally in PowerBI. Nobody had one place to ask "are we actually making progress this quarter."

Moving goals into Vindaris didn't mean giving up any of those tools. Jira and Planner sync in automatically, and the KPIs that still live in spreadsheets get logged as check-ins against the same goals, so everything sits on one timeline.

Vindaris task board showing work synced in from multiple connected tools

Work synced in from the tools Kith Spark already runs, tagged by source and grouped by status.

One dashboard instead of five status updates

Before Vindaris, a monthly review meant pulling numbers out of Jira, Planner, and a couple of spreadsheets and stitching them into a deck. Now Data Studio does that automatically, and it's the same view every week, not a fresh export each time someone asks for one.

The dashboard has changed the conversation in Kith Spark's team meetings. Instead of debating whose numbers are current, the team spends that time on the two or three KPIs that actually need attention.

Vindaris Data Studio dashboard showing KPI progress across a quarter

The dashboard Kith Spark reviews weekly: where the team is ahead of plan, and where it needs to lean in.

“We got everything we needed to see across Jira, Planner, and the KPIs we still track by hand, in one dashboard.”Product lead, Kith Spark

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