Data is more and more abundant, including regarding security metrics. It is really worth exploiting it, as it fosters informed and efficient collaboration.
Jira is the most common solution for the management of agile stories. It provides very rich reporting functions. So great attention should be given to configure it adequately.
It is often said that dashboards are only for managers. Following agile transparency principle, ASF pushes for shared dashboards for all stakeholders: developers, managers, security teams.
It is generally better to avoid sensitive information in dashboard, so that is is possible to stick to a simple access control mechanism (e.g. set the teams who have access to the dashboards).
The dashboards for development environment concern vulnerabilities, code quality, micro-segmentation, secrets leaks, ...
Some tools like SonarQube already provide good dashboards for code quality. Similarly, commercial tools always provide dashboard functionalities.
However, it often makes sense to develop additional custom dashboards:
this reduces vendor lockdown and dependency
modern tools makes that much simpler than it used to be, and a POC dashboard can be developed in a few days
this allows top-notch and adapted dashboards that will bring high values to all stakeholders
there are connectors for most commercial tools, so exploiting their raw data is often possible
Modern dashboards are explorable, so each reader is able to dive in the details as necessary.
Allowing personalized dashboards is also great to improve the UX for all readers.
Il also makes sense to take regular (daily, weekly) snapshots for most relevant dashboards and send them by mail or in collaboration channels.
Many tools can be used to create dashboards. Metabase or Apache Superset are good examples in the open-source category.
The ultimate goal of dashboards is to push for constant progress. Once a goal has been achieved, a new goal can be defined, and the dashboards can be adapted for that new goal.
Trend reporting widgets are very interesting to facilitate reading at a glance.