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Great product for helping teams improve their processes and performance
What do you like best about the product?
I love the easy to undersand and digest metrics that are provided out of the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
The administraion aspects of the tool are a little challenging or non intuitive initially.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Linear B is helping our teams improve their value delivery by giving them metrics to review and improve. It has pushed our teams to work in smaller batches and deliver more frequently.
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Time saving calculating engineering and sprint metrics
What do you like best about the product?
I like that LinearB uses the already available information from our use of GitHub and Jira to produce metrics without any manual intervention. Instead of spending time manually putting different metrics together in a spreadsheet to understand how engineering teams are doing, I can focus my time in digesting these metrics to identify opporuntity areas and come up with a plan to make our teams run more efficiently.
One of my most used features is Projects to understand how well our teams are planning their sprints and how much work are we adding into the sprint. While this information is avilable through sprint reports in Jira, it's very hard to consume there. LinearB does a great job at displaying this information in a very user friendly manner and is highly customizable to pull data by team, bord, epic, etc.
LinearB is also constantly releasing out new features and their support team is great to work with. Always responding very quickly and helpful.
One of my most used features is Projects to understand how well our teams are planning their sprints and how much work are we adding into the sprint. While this information is avilable through sprint reports in Jira, it's very hard to consume there. LinearB does a great job at displaying this information in a very user friendly manner and is highly customizable to pull data by team, bord, epic, etc.
LinearB is also constantly releasing out new features and their support team is great to work with. Always responding very quickly and helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see a bit more of harmonization across the different metrics available in the tool. While the metrics themselves are good and insightful, some of them are available to display by sprint, others by week. It would be good to be able to see things under the same lens when looking at teams metrics without having to manually use a custom date picker to replicate the sprint duration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having information about our teams efficiency easily available to identify issues and continuously improve.
LinearB facilitates organizational transformation
What do you like best about the product?
LinearB is remarkably user-friendly and straightforward to set up, ensuring a seamless integration into existing workflows. It empowers stakeholders with the ability to access and review insightful data for individual teams, entire projects, or even broader departmental trends. The impact of LinearB on our organization has been profound, enriching our retrospective discussions with actionable talking points and driving a culture of continuous improvement across the board. The software's data-backed insights eliminate the guesswork previously associated with pinpointing areas for improvement, offering clear direction for teams to focus their efforts.
Our engineers have particularly enjoyed the WorkerB Slackbot. Notably, the review pickup time has shown a plummetted, resulting in enhanced efficiency without blowing up Slack with unnecessary noise.
Our engineers have particularly enjoyed the WorkerB Slackbot. Notably, the review pickup time has shown a plummetted, resulting in enhanced efficiency without blowing up Slack with unnecessary noise.
What do you dislike about the product?
While LinearB stands as a fully operational and effective product, its integrations with Shortcut are not as rich as those available for Jira. Despite this, LinearB's engineering team has worked very closely with my organization to introduce new features tailored for Shortcut.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LinearB is empowering teams with a heightened sense of ownership over their improvement endeavors, as well as greater control over KPIs and OKRs. It offers stakeholders invaluable insights into team health and a deeper understanding of the underlying factors influencing the team's operational dynamics, both positive or negative. LinearB not only enhances team autonomy but also equips stakeholders with a comprehensive perspective, enabling informed decisions that are driving organizational success.
Great tool for data driven engineering leadership!
What do you like best about the product?
LinearB provides great information to engineering leaders for understanding objectively how their teams are performing and how to improve it. I think it does a great job at presenting the information and provides also good tools for leaders to take action on that data. I also like a lot the Dev Interrupted community and the Interact events, I think they are a great complement to LinearB.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd love to see industry benchmarks in more metrics. Also I think it would be great to have better tools to take action on metrics, and the possibility to have goals set on any metric.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main issue LinearB helps us with is having objective performance metrics for engineering teams. Since we've started using it we've seen an increase on performance on our team.
Great software to see how your team members work together
What do you like best about the product?
The largest benefit is seeing how the code flows through your system from start to finish. The quick and easy insights LinearB provides fosters great discussions within teams on what impacts their ability to get code deployed. Many of our teams have found the work that happens outside of coding in the largest hindrence to productivity, not writing the code itself. Also, this has fostered discussions on how best the team wants to work together to balance focus time with collaboration time.
What do you dislike about the product?
LinearB is working on building out better enterprise like features. Working with a larger engineering organization some parts are a bit difficult to manage. The team is very receptive to feedback though and I'm looking forward to the improvements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's solving the problem of providing actionable insights into how teams are effectively working, while not overly focusing on individuals. We know teams are most successful when they work together and not as individuals. This makes it easy to see the data and then discuss with the team on how to improve.
Great experience with LinearB
What do you like best about the product?
LinearB has been a game-changer for our team. It's like a superhero tool for software development. It helped us work smarter, not harder and gave us a lot of interesting insights.
Since we started using LinearB, we're getting things done faster. It's easy to see where our projects are at, who's doing what, and what needs attention. No more endless meetings and confusing email chains. Everything's right there in one place.
The best part? LinearB shows us all sorts of numbers that actually make sense. We know how long it takes to get stuff done, where we can improve, and how to use our time better. It's like having a map to navigate the development jungle.
Our whole team loves it. We're more organized, everyone's on the same page, and we're shipping better code. If you're serious about nailing your projects and making your team happier, give LinearB a shot.
Since we started using LinearB, we're getting things done faster. It's easy to see where our projects are at, who's doing what, and what needs attention. No more endless meetings and confusing email chains. Everything's right there in one place.
The best part? LinearB shows us all sorts of numbers that actually make sense. We know how long it takes to get stuff done, where we can improve, and how to use our time better. It's like having a map to navigate the development jungle.
Our whole team loves it. We're more organized, everyone's on the same page, and we're shipping better code. If you're serious about nailing your projects and making your team happier, give LinearB a shot.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially, navigating the array of metrics within LinearB can be overwhelming. Thankfully, LinearB's adept Customer Success Managers (CSMs) offer invaluable guidance.
The surplus of metrics can leave one uncertain of where to start or prioritize. Enter LinearB's responsive CSMs, who expertly untangle this complexity. Their advice clarifies which metrics demand attention and which can wait, streamlining our approach.
While the learning curve is steep, LinearB's CSMs make it manageable. Their guidance helps us decipher metric importance and focus effectively.
The surplus of metrics can leave one uncertain of where to start or prioritize. Enter LinearB's responsive CSMs, who expertly untangle this complexity. Their advice clarifies which metrics demand attention and which can wait, streamlining our approach.
While the learning curve is steep, LinearB's CSMs make it manageable. Their guidance helps us decipher metric importance and focus effectively.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LinearB solves the challenge of deciphering complex development metrics. Its guidance and insights help us focus on key priorities, streamlining our workflow and enhancing decision-making.
Revolutionizing Software Delivery Management
What do you like best about the product?
LinearB has been transofmrational for our organization, by increasing efficiency, transparency, and quality in our software delivery processes.
Prior to LinearB adoption, we had challenges with feature delivery predictability. Knowing when a release will hit, gauging the timeframes, and planning accuracy are all crucial to us. With LinearB, our releases have become more like clockwork, with surprises (the undesirable ones, at least) becoming a thing of the past.
LinearB ensures that our end product is nothing short of top-notch. With its comprehensive engineering quality metrics, we've observed a significant improvement in engineering core metrics such as PR sizes, New Code/Refactor/Rework ratios and more. We are also now starting to leverage WorkerB which is a fantastic bot that sends meaningful and purposeful pieces of information to teams and individuals. The information is very contextual and it reduces cognitive load on engineers that is requred as they progress through the development cycles.
LinearB has a really nice UI and it is very easy to use. The dashboards and visualizations provide a clear overview of our projects at a glance via GitHub and Jira integrations, allowing for quick decision-making.
We couldn't be happier with our experience, and most certainly recommend LinearB to any organization looking to elevate their software delivery management.
Prior to LinearB adoption, we had challenges with feature delivery predictability. Knowing when a release will hit, gauging the timeframes, and planning accuracy are all crucial to us. With LinearB, our releases have become more like clockwork, with surprises (the undesirable ones, at least) becoming a thing of the past.
LinearB ensures that our end product is nothing short of top-notch. With its comprehensive engineering quality metrics, we've observed a significant improvement in engineering core metrics such as PR sizes, New Code/Refactor/Rework ratios and more. We are also now starting to leverage WorkerB which is a fantastic bot that sends meaningful and purposeful pieces of information to teams and individuals. The information is very contextual and it reduces cognitive load on engineers that is requred as they progress through the development cycles.
LinearB has a really nice UI and it is very easy to use. The dashboards and visualizations provide a clear overview of our projects at a glance via GitHub and Jira integrations, allowing for quick decision-making.
We couldn't be happier with our experience, and most certainly recommend LinearB to any organization looking to elevate their software delivery management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Areas for Improvement:
While LinearB shines in many areas, there are a couple of aspects that could benefit from fine-tuning:
While LinearB works seamlessly with Github and Jira, which are the platforms we use, broader integrations could elevate its value even further. However, we feel like LinearB provides us with all the best industry benchmarks already, and we constatly guided by that.
While LinearB shines in many areas, there are a couple of aspects that could benefit from fine-tuning:
While LinearB works seamlessly with Github and Jira, which are the platforms we use, broader integrations could elevate its value even further. However, we feel like LinearB provides us with all the best industry benchmarks already, and we constatly guided by that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LinearB provides tools and insights that help ensure our teams and resources are aligned with our borader business goals and objectives. This reduces miscommunication, misdirection, and wasted efforts that can occur when teams aren't synchronized. Everyone likes to know how they are performing based on some Industry benchmarks. It is difficult to know what those industry benchmarks are, unless you have LinearB! LinearB provides us with all the meaningful engineering benchmarks that we are constantly trying to get on top of. It's actually gamified our experience with LinearB and there is certaily a fun factor there once the team gets the benefit of seeing the improvements in their engineering rituals.
Software projects can be unpredictable due to a multitude of reasons - from unforeseen technical challenges to scope changes. LinearB introduces metrics, such as Planning Accuracy, and tools that increase predictability in release schedules and timelines.
In summary, LinearB has been instrumental in refining our software delivery process and driving efficiency. This has not only benefited our organization from a financial and operational standpoint but has also bolstered our reputation in the industry and developer hapiness.
Software projects can be unpredictable due to a multitude of reasons - from unforeseen technical challenges to scope changes. LinearB introduces metrics, such as Planning Accuracy, and tools that increase predictability in release schedules and timelines.
In summary, LinearB has been instrumental in refining our software delivery process and driving efficiency. This has not only benefited our organization from a financial and operational standpoint but has also bolstered our reputation in the industry and developer hapiness.
Love the data driven approach LinearB brings to engineering leadership
What do you like best about the product?
LinearB helped my teams understand the metrics they care about - cycle time ; review time ; PR size ; merge frequency; planning accuracy ; issues done. Before LinearB, our leadership ran their teams without having this data available at their fingertips.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some features that used to lack from LinearB. However, the LinearB team have always been super helpful and responsive in hearing me out and helping to prioritize the missing features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bringing data to the fingertips of the engineering managers on the team to help their teams continuously improve.
Genuinely useful metrics backed by fantastic, engaged support
What do you like best about the product?
Using LinearB presents us with combined insights from multiple data sources that we did not have before. This enables teams to take action, ideally proactively, to improve their ability to create and deliver valuable outcomes for customers. From the moment we started our PoC LinearB helped us identify that which we otherwise would not have known, meaning action could be taken by our teams.
Continuous improvement activities in teams can be directly linked to LinearB metrics with cause-and-effect visible. Hence, improvements that are not yielding positive change can quickly be re-assessed, and those that are yielding benefits sustained and enhanced.
Additionally, any service is only as good as the customer service it provides. This, because rapid resolution of issues, and clarification of uncertainty, is what enables adoption of tooling. LinearB's team is incredibly easy to work with: they are engaged, thoughtful and a breath of fresh air!
Continuous improvement activities in teams can be directly linked to LinearB metrics with cause-and-effect visible. Hence, improvements that are not yielding positive change can quickly be re-assessed, and those that are yielding benefits sustained and enhanced.
Additionally, any service is only as good as the customer service it provides. This, because rapid resolution of issues, and clarification of uncertainty, is what enables adoption of tooling. LinearB's team is incredibly easy to work with: they are engaged, thoughtful and a breath of fresh air!
What do you dislike about the product?
Certain features were not available to us initially due to our company's toolset. This was not a fault of LinearB, and we engaged with them to resolve these one-by-one. This shows just how good LinearB's support has been as they've helped shape the tool to our needs.
Not a "dislike" as such, but worth noting : you have to get buy-in from top to bottom in an organisation for a tool like LinearB to bed in and be useful. This, to avoid it becoming management-by-statistics.
Not a "dislike" as such, but worth noting : you have to get buy-in from top to bottom in an organisation for a tool like LinearB to bed in and be useful. This, to avoid it becoming management-by-statistics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Linking Engineering change and improvement to metrics that demonstrate such improvement.
Identifying areas for future improvement to generate discussion in teams to adopt new and improved Ways of Working
Resource allocation verification.
Identifying areas for future improvement to generate discussion in teams to adopt new and improved Ways of Working
Resource allocation verification.
I no longer need to calculate metrics by hand
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I have a tool that shows me allocations and key metrics without needing to compute by hand. LinearB has allowed me to focus on key metrics like the DORA metrics to understand how my team is doing. I've also been able to accurately figure out where we're spending our time from a resource allocation perspective.
Prior to signing up with LinearB I spent a lot of time and energy trying to calculate this information with spreadsheets and manually updating data from our ticketing system. The integrations between our code repository and ticketing system makes those calculations happen automatically. This is allowing us to work cross-functionally within my organization to make sure we focus on the right thing.
The ability to drive a software team with accurate DORA metrics contributes to changing the culture in our organization.
Prior to signing up with LinearB I spent a lot of time and energy trying to calculate this information with spreadsheets and manually updating data from our ticketing system. The integrations between our code repository and ticketing system makes those calculations happen automatically. This is allowing us to work cross-functionally within my organization to make sure we focus on the right thing.
The ability to drive a software team with accurate DORA metrics contributes to changing the culture in our organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not sure there's much to put here that's not super nitpicky. It would be amazing if the data refreshed instantaneously when I make team or configuration changes. With the amount of data we generate I can't fault the system for taking a few minutes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows us to drive the Engineering team in the direction the company wants to go. LinearB allows us to quickly see if we're executing on our resource allocation goals. In addition, it allows our Engineers to see how we're doing month over month with our goals to improve internally.
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