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Sep 15, 2022 - If your daily stand-ups feel like a waste of time, they probably are. Here’s what’s wrong with most stand-ups — and what you can do about it.

Swarmia supports two different models to measure the work: activity-based and effort-based

Swarmia combines research-backed insights with tools that help modern software teams improve business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer...

Configure custom categories and and improve the categorization rate.

Connect GitHub, issue tracker and notifications, and create Swarmia teams to get your first insights.

The flow efficiency of an issue is the percentage of days when the issue was actively worked on compared to its whole lifetime.

Learn what “good” looks like with Swarmia’s software engineering benchmarks.

Throughput is more difficult to improve than for example cycle time, since it reflects the team's overall situation rather than just the process.

Batch size measures how much work is bundled up in a change. Swarmia offers tools for evaluating pull request batch size by looking at the total amount of...

Some of the world’s best startups, including Lovable and Superhuman, use Swarmia to ship better software faster.

Learn how Swarmia calculates pull request review metrics, including time to first review and review time.

Your decisions are only as good as the data that informs them. Swarmia allows you to reliably measure, visualize, and export your software development data.

Make informed decisions about engineering investments, initiatives, and software capitalization.

Oct 27, 2021 - Retrospectives using only subjective data easily lead to skewed insights and actions. One solution is to add a "present hard data" step to your...

Deployment frequency is calculated by looking at the total number of deployments that happened in a given time period.

Swarmia surfaces research-backed engineering metrics, including DORA and SPACE, and insights that guide software organizations to take concrete action.

Dec 16, 2022 - We’re excited to let you know that Swarmia is now officially SOC 2 Type 2 compliant! Here’s what that means for our current and future customers.

Combine developer experience surveys, adoption metrics, and usage patterns to understand how AI coding tools play into your software organization’s...

Timesheets help your organization record, approve, and export hours at the daily and individual level without manual tracking during work.

Swarmia gives software organizations with thousands of developers the insights they need to eliminate bottlenecks and quantify the business impact of...

Estimate how long initiatives will take.

Issues progress through various stages of completeness during their lifetime. Swarmia automatically calculates key properties and metrics for each issue.

Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization is a blueprint for continuous improvement that zeroes in on three key ingredients: business outcomes,...

Swarmia is on a mission to build happier and more productive software teams. Come join us!

You can attach freeform context information to work items like pull requests and issues with notes.

Issue cycle time is defined as the amount of time work has spent in the ‘in progress’ status, as defined by your settings in Swarmia. This calculation is...

Linking pull requests to issues allows you to group work by issues. This article describes the ways Swarmia can detect which issue a pull request is related to.

Swarmia connects GitHub and Slack to speed up developer workflows, automate feedback loops, and improve collaboration.

Combine developer experience surveys, adoption data, and usage patterns to understand how AI coding tools play into your software organization’s productivity.

Swarmia provides you with the most important CI metrics for tracking your CI health

Diagnose cycle time issues, decrease review time and improve pull request workflow with Swarmia's pull request insights.

Create filters to automatically exclude specific pull requests from all Swarmia metrics at the team and organization levels, or exclude individual pull...

Feb 17, 2025 - Running developer experience surveys is one thing, but knowing how to put all that feedback from engineers into action is another. In this blog post, we...

To view Jira data in Swarmia, you must first assign the appropriate Jira board to your team.

Analyze deployment frequency and quality across your entire organization in Swarmia.

Working agreements put engineering teams in charge of their continuous improvement. They allow teams to set and track numeric targets and adopt industry best...

Jan 3, 2024 - Today, having Continuous Integration is table stakes. Yet, CI pipelines are a common cause for developer frustration. And that’s why in this blog post, we...

Swarmia investment balance helps you answer many questions that engineering organisations struggle with.

Swarmia gives you the visibility you need to keep strategic engineering initiatives moving.

Get visibility into your team’s pull requests and the contributing factors behind cycle time: the number of pull requests in progress, batch size, and review...

Set up your initiatives to enable visibility beyond team-level work.

Metrics tell you what happened, but signals tell you why it matters — and what to do next. With them, you can focus on making improvements instead of...

Swarmia is a software engineering intelligence platform for modern organizations. Learn more about our philosophy and the people behind Swarmia.

Learn how developer effort is measured in Swarmia

Throughput is defined as the number of pull requests you get through as a team over a selected period of time.

Change lead time measures the full lifecycle of a pull request from the first commit to deployment.

Change failure rate is the ratio of failed deployments to all deployments.

Working agreements help teams continuously improve with clear goals and consistent execution

Learn how to set up your HR system integration with Swarmia.

Aug 31, 2022 - If you’re trying to decide whether to measure cycle time or velocity, cycle time is typically the better option. In this blog post, we explain why.

See all open pull requests and where they are going in a team context.

Identify and eliminate software delivery bottlenecks with a combination of research-backed metrics and developer tooling.

Get to know the integrations that help you form a complete picture of engineering effectiveness.

Get the sprint analytics you need to improve planning and collaboration in your Scrum team.

We’re constantly building new features to Swarmia based on customer feedback. The changelog is where you’ll find all the recent product updates and...

Improve the quality of engineering one-to-ones and career development discussions with visualizations that don’t reduce engineers to a number.

Get pull requests through faster with Swarmia's insights and working agreements around cycle time.

Swarmia tracks the issues linked to your sprints and helps you visualize scope increase and carryover

Effective software organizations from startups to enterprises use Swarmia to improve business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.

Whether you’re looking to track DORA metrics for one team or the whole engineering organization, Swarmia gives you the exact data you need.

You can select a paid plan directly in Swarmia

Pull request cycle time (or PR cycle time) is the total time a pull request spends in all stages of the development pipeline.

Visualize engineering work with Developer Overview

Scope creep measures the amount of work added to an issue while it was in progress.

How to run great retrospectives with Swarmia.

The article provides an overview of settings to ensure your data is accurate in Swarmia and links you to further reading and the related settings in the...

Make informed investment decisions by understanding how much time and money you’re spending on different types of engineering work.

The focus summary allows you to easily explore what your teams and organization are spending the most effort (FTEs) on.

Everything you need to know about setting up your Investment Balance and configuring your organization's categories.

We’re proud platinum sponsors of the 2025 DORA State of AI-Assisted Software Development report. Download it here for free.

Learn how to connect your Slack organization to Swarmia.

Learn how to connect your organization's Microsoft Teams to Swarmia.

Use developer activity data from Swarmia to generate capitalization reports and blend with cost data.

Run developer experience surveys in Swarmia to collect and analyze feedback and concrete improvement ideas from your software engineers.

If you’re interested in concrete tips for building better software faster, you’ve come to the right place.

Build better quality products, reduce technical debt, and implement development practices that scale as your team grows

Batch size measures how much work is bundled up in a change. Swarmia offers tools for evaluating pull request batch size by looking at the total number of...

Time to deploy is the average time between a pull request merge and deployment.

How Swarmia scaled documentation collaboration to 40 contributors with GitBook, improved SEO visibility, and made docs feel like their product.

May 25, 2022 - In this article, we introduce a framework for balancing engineering investments across four categories and explain how to get started.

Work log allows you to see all the work that’s happening in the engineering team. Use it to analyze individual issues or get a bird’s eye view of the past...