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    Matt C.

From 50% DORA health scores to 98% in less than 6 months.

  • August 08, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
LinearB has given our business critical telemetry and attribution for our engineering teams. In the past 6 months the wins enabled by the tool include the following.

1. 90% reduction in time to release resulting in a massive reduction in cycle time for our organization.
2. Cycle time for teams has been reduced by 66% from an average of 6 days to deliver value when we started using LinearB to an average of 2 days now.
3. Team planning accuracy has been very useful for retros to speak with the product manager and engineering manager.

As we have improved our pracitce around planning our ability to hit delivery dates has improved significantly. Prior to having LinearB we were constantly experiencing rollover work and pushed deadlines due to poor practices around planning. While we are still very much in the process of tackling this problem, and LinearB gives us the visiblity we need to manage the improvement. In the past 6 months we have gone from an org avererage of ~50% and have improved to around 70% today. The result is immideate and is allowing us to better time when major feature work will ship and coordinate the business as a whole.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the product has progressed signficantly in the past year I am still very excited for more granular analytics views where I can more easily switch between mean and average values at a per-team level. It's not a significant issue, but it's something that will be nice to have when they implement this feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LinearB provides the core of our engineering productivity metrics for the entire organization. Equally critical to our business, LinearB provides estimation and attribution of developer efforts (FTE per feature) allowing us to report on and manage development costs.


    Jason M.

Empowering Insights and Continuous Innovation

  • August 08, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
One standout aspect of LinearB is their exceptional customer support. Whenever we encountered a challenge their team is quick to respond and assist. They offer a regular stream of new product features and are happy to take user feedback into consideration.
What do you dislike about the product?
New features often feel rushed into production, leading to usability issues that have required feedback/iterations before they became fully functional for our needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Improved visibility over work being done by our teams, allowing us to identify bottlenecks within our process, and even predict when a team is struggling (i.e. Insufficient planning/alignment, Employee burnout)


    Jeremy L.

Must have if you are scaling a team

  • August 08, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
LinearB offers several positive features that can greatly benefit development teams and projects. More than a KPI tracking tool, it really helps in building better coding practices and culture.
It can be a great help in coaching and growing the skills of your Team Leads, as it is simple to use and customize.
On top of that, you can clearly see that they are working a lot on the product, and listen to their customers. They release useful new features every quarter, if not every month.
What do you dislike about the product?
While it tries to provide single pan of glass from the developer level up to the C level, it doesn't quite achieve this goal yet.
I can see it could greatly benefit on the developer eduction side and on the C level reporting. Hopefully will come soon!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Understanding your tech department's performance and maturity.


    Iris G.

Insightful tool that helps R&D teams identify bottle necks and help them work more efficiently

  • August 08, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
LinearB integrates with out git repositories and Jira and give us, in BigID, a full picture of the work that is done.
Jira can present some KPIs, but in LinearB it's integrated with git and shown in a friendly way to the users.
Some of our most viewed features in LinearB are:
Cycle time - help identify bottle necks
Work breakdown - helps us see what % of refactor was done and if additional testing is needed or perhaps a retro to why this happened
High interaction MRs
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Projects: Planning & Capacity accuracy. This helps the teams plan better, understand better the work with Jira and adds motivation when they see the accuracy rise :)
Also, we get from time to time a report that shows how the work is distributed over the week and over the day, which is very insightful.
The support team are great. Always quick to respond and very helpful.
And the team of CSMs that we work with are the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool is designed to Saas products, which is great.
But it would be great if the cycle time could have been configurable (i.e. remove the Deploy part in our case).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrated data from git and Jira.
Mainly Jira insights that are available in Jira but not out-of-the-box like in LinearB, such as the planning & capacity accuracy.


    Idan L.

Idan Lavy VP R&D and Israel GM at Solidus Labs

  • August 06, 2023
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
LinearB makes the engineering processes and flows visible by exposing a large number of engineering metrics. It helps me as the VP R&D to have educated discussions with my direct reports and with my CEO. I can identify bottlenecks quickly, measure the team efficiency and the developer experience and improve based on data.
What do you dislike about the product?
In general I like LinearB, there are cases where it is not clear how the calculation are made and it require me to invest more time, especially in the integration phase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LinearB is both a reporting tool and an R&D managment tool. It allow me understand where are the areas that I need to improve and where are the areas that I am doing well. It gives me OOTB metrics that helps me improving my team performance. It also helps me to understand the business value of the R&D work.


    Jakub O.

Superb platform for measuring the Engineering oraganisation

  • August 04, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
One-stop shop for all Engineering metrics.
Working as a plug-and-play platform rather than just software.
What do you dislike about the product?
Costs are a bit higher, but it is worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Measuring the Engineering organization. Helping us with the coding automation.


    David J.

Building products the right way

  • May 24, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
LinearB's products give us the tools to help us deploy and integrate quickly while keeping us honest. Great account execs, great product team, great support.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's nothing to dislike about LinearB!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Maintaining the guard rails of effective continuous delivery. We're deploying smaller change more often and getting feedback quicker.


    Jim G.

Terrific product showing the insights we need to improve pace and quality -- strong customer service

  • May 09, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
LinearB is rich with data and insights while managing to avoid the massive and bewildering dump of data that some competing products deliver. We have easily and quickly been able to use LinearB to find areas of focus in our operations, drive improvements, and see real-time results in LinearB. We've had questions and Support responds lightning fast. We have also found a couple defects -- we're a software company too, we get it, there's no such thing as defect-free software. Support landed on them like marines on the beach. One was fixed literally one hour after we reported it. The other was a little more complicated, and we saw it rapidly escalated for focused attention.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a few minor features we wish for that remain in their backlog.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reducing cycle time so that we can move closer to continuous delivery.
Identifying antipatterns of team functioning so managers can encourage changes.
Accurate DORA metric reporting as our objective evidence of engineering excellence, reported up to the executive team.


    Mahesh M.

LinearB, the best project management monitoring tool available in real-time Perspectives and metrics

  • May 03, 2023
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
One of the best monitoring tools I've found for keeping tabs on a project's progress is LinearB. The Dashboard view of the CI/CD deployments is the best feature. We can integrate the tool with the Jira/ADO board to track the status of deployments. Connecting to the Git stream to track pipeline execution, repository changes, and review status is the most crucial step.
Really appreciate the customer service team for answering all questions and for setting up demo sessions as needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
No comments as such. Will come up with any queries in the near feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LinearB address the solution in the areas of tracking the release status across multiple projects, Resource wise WBS, PR Code reviews, Count of PR merge spanning across different environments, Sprint wise statistics, Tracking repository changes, CI/CD Pipeline status and many more..


    Craig W.

Great tool to support teams in their efficiency

  • April 18, 2023
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What do you like best about the product?
LinearB has been great for the teams at Flipdish. LinearB is integrated with our Github and JIRA accounts allowing teams to benchmark themselves against other Engineering teams in the market. These delivery metrics have a cascading impact on improving business outcomes while the teams focus on solving the correct problems. LinearB helps pinpoint areas of flow that can be enhanced and trends the result of their improvement exercises, dramatically boosting team morale and engagement.

Setting up teams with LinearB is easy. Syncing team structure from GitHub allows seamless integration and removing the admin associated with setting up tools and starting to use them effectively from day one.

LinearB can easily give you an overview of where Engineering organisations are spending their time and on what initiatives maximising the ROI for your most valuable business outcomes.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is important to remember that LinearB is an excellent tool for Engineering leaders driving teams to improve efficiency, but this needs to be tied back to company metrics and objectives to realise business value.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping the teams understand what good should look like from an Engineering perspective and offering a helpful path to get there. Over the last 10 sprints, LinearB has helped Flipdish improve delivery metrics but 50% focusing on the right outcomes and meeting the company's objectives. The Elite team metrics show real-world benchmarks for teams to measure themselves against.