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Great concept with improvements needed
What do you like best about the product?
The concept is good, but improvement is required to provide a better user experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer onboarding support; product configuration; lack of kanban agile process support
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Produce DORA metrics to enable engineering managers to get clear views of their software development team
Waydev has provided valuable insights on our development team.
What do you like best about the product?
I've used and compared other tools, but Waydev seems to be the only one to combine all the features I need with customization options.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd like to see more detail into unplanned work types.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Waydev gives us visibility on our remote developers day to day work as well as trends over time.
Great Developer Team Insights with outstanding Customer Support
What do you like best about the product?
We have recently switched from a competitor developer analytics tool to Waydev and are super happy and impressed by its quality. In general, we see 4 big arguments for Waydev:
1.) The content they provide via mail and blog is great. I was reading it already for a long time before deciding to go with Waydev, and it was also the main reason why I decided to give it a try.
2.) They provide more KPIs than its competitors and seem to be the leading platform in this regard / have the highest product development speed. Here, I was rather disappointed by our previous tool, which seemed to be stuck for ~2 years after it got acquired by a bigger company.
3.) I just learnt after using Waydev how valuable it is to connect your CI pipeline to your KPIs. The combination of Git-hosting provider (Gitlab / Github), Jira / ticketing system and CI pipeline is really awesome and gives you the possibility to track your DORA metrics (if you don't know what it is, check Waydev's blog).
4.) Last but certainly not least, Waydev has outstanding customer support with super fast response times. But not only do they respond fast (and even the Head of Customer Success is reaching out), they also act fast. I had a few questions during my onboarding, and they were even able to speed up the connection of my repositories to make the onboarding smoother.
1.) The content they provide via mail and blog is great. I was reading it already for a long time before deciding to go with Waydev, and it was also the main reason why I decided to give it a try.
2.) They provide more KPIs than its competitors and seem to be the leading platform in this regard / have the highest product development speed. Here, I was rather disappointed by our previous tool, which seemed to be stuck for ~2 years after it got acquired by a bigger company.
3.) I just learnt after using Waydev how valuable it is to connect your CI pipeline to your KPIs. The combination of Git-hosting provider (Gitlab / Github), Jira / ticketing system and CI pipeline is really awesome and gives you the possibility to track your DORA metrics (if you don't know what it is, check Waydev's blog).
4.) Last but certainly not least, Waydev has outstanding customer support with super fast response times. But not only do they respond fast (and even the Head of Customer Success is reaching out), they also act fast. I had a few questions during my onboarding, and they were even able to speed up the connection of my repositories to make the onboarding smoother.
What do you dislike about the product?
The onboarding process was tricky. You need to start configuring your git hosting provider with all the repositories you want to use, you need to get an access token to your Jira system, and then you need to connect your CI pipeline tool. Although I was used to it, it took some time to go through. But the good thing is that the support was actively helping me during the process and as described above, was even able to speed up processes. And in comparison, the tool we were using before was even more complicated, so the onboarding is already much better than the competition :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It basically solves three problems for us and for me:
1.) When your development department gets bigger and is split across multiple teams / multiple repositories, it's very hard to keep track of all teams and team members. Waydev helps you to see your department's and team's KPIs, so that you can start conversations when KPIs go below what you would expect. In the end, even if it's just data and needs your interpretation, it's very valuable data that is hard to get somewhere else.
2.) In addition to my first point, it gives you KPIs you can use to report your department's status quo to upper management (or non-developers in general). Most KPIs do not require developer knowledge or only to a certain amount, so that you can easily use it align on business goals / how development can support these business goals.
3.) It just helps you to get better. I don't see it only as developer analytics, but more as a way for process improvements. Your code review timings go up? Check with your team and make sure they have enough time for quality reviews. No commits on Mondays? Maybe you need to split sprint meetings into multiple days, so that your devs have time every day. In general, it gives you a deep understanding of your team behavior and gives you ways to improve it.
1.) When your development department gets bigger and is split across multiple teams / multiple repositories, it's very hard to keep track of all teams and team members. Waydev helps you to see your department's and team's KPIs, so that you can start conversations when KPIs go below what you would expect. In the end, even if it's just data and needs your interpretation, it's very valuable data that is hard to get somewhere else.
2.) In addition to my first point, it gives you KPIs you can use to report your department's status quo to upper management (or non-developers in general). Most KPIs do not require developer knowledge or only to a certain amount, so that you can easily use it align on business goals / how development can support these business goals.
3.) It just helps you to get better. I don't see it only as developer analytics, but more as a way for process improvements. Your code review timings go up? Check with your team and make sure they have enough time for quality reviews. No commits on Mondays? Maybe you need to split sprint meetings into multiple days, so that your devs have time every day. In general, it gives you a deep understanding of your team behavior and gives you ways to improve it.
Really insightful metrics and visibility across all our engineering teams.
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy to integrate Bitbucket repositories and Jira projects together.
- Full visibility across all the development workflow.
- Metrics breakdown across different teams.
- Custom reports are easy to share with executive teams and project stakeholders.
- Full visibility across all the development workflow.
- Metrics breakdown across different teams.
- Custom reports are easy to share with executive teams and project stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
- A bit expensive for mid-size companies
- Billing should be done on a monthly basis too, instead of on a yearly basis only.
- Billing should be done on a monthly basis too, instead of on a yearly basis only.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- The automated weekly reports are useful to share with each engineering team to discuss and improve the team's performance and collaboration as much as possible — also really useful for sprint retrospectives.
- The same reports and insights can also be used as baselines for engineering performance reviews and 1:1s.
- Custom reports are easy to share with executive teams and project stakeholders.
- The same reports and insights can also be used as baselines for engineering performance reviews and 1:1s.
- Custom reports are easy to share with executive teams and project stakeholders.
Waydev is great !
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy integration and setup
- Ready to go with a lot of data and useful insights about the team and its impact on the organization
- Doesn't require specific learning or additional effort from the engineering team
- Ready to go with a lot of data and useful insights about the team and its impact on the organization
- Doesn't require specific learning or additional effort from the engineering team
What do you dislike about the product?
We didn't find any negative aspects during our utilization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can analyze the individual and collective impact in different projects
We also use it to analyze recommendations, churn code, best team players, productivity, etc
It's very useful as well to evaluate if the teams are evolving and getting better velocity and impact
Waydev is very useful when you have big engineering teams that are quite dispersed and work remote mostly
We also use it to analyze recommendations, churn code, best team players, productivity, etc
It's very useful as well to evaluate if the teams are evolving and getting better velocity and impact
Waydev is very useful when you have big engineering teams that are quite dispersed and work remote mostly
Great tool for engineering managers to quantify what's going on
What do you like best about the product?
A necessary tool for engineering managers who are into management by numbers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Can alert you to potential problems but still need to deep dive ... not a problem that's ever going to be fully solvable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing engineering
Great Tool to Improve Team Performance
What do you like best about the product?
I've tried many similar tools and Waydev is the best by far in terms of how it prevents metrics. It makes it easy to measure and compare team and individual performance.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing so far, it has all of the features I was looking for.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Identifying team members that have issues with productivity and looking for ways to help them improve.
Indispensable metrics for a busy software manager!
What do you like best about the product?
I like that WayDev gives me a bird's eye view of my engineering team's efficiency and productivity.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is powerful but also fairly complex. It takes a good amount of time to discover and learn all the features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WayDev lets me know about my engineering team is delivering without me having to understand all the intricacies of what my folks are working on.
Great tool for engineering managers. Very comprehensive analytics!
What do you like best about the product?
One thing is that the platform is constantly improved and updated with new features. Also, we can really zoom into what the teams are doing, and that helps us spot any blockers or potential risks.
The flexibility of reporting is great, we can create custom reports and slice and dice metrics as we like. We also plugged in JIRA to help us understand how much we spend on unplanned work, bugs, and track the progress of our features.
The platform also plugs into Jenkins, which allows us to measure our teams’ DORA metrics automatically.
Another fantastic thing about the platform is that we can actually visualize the performance of our teams and set targets for them, so whenever they hit a certain point, the managers are notified.
It is a really great investment for us because we can see everything that went wrong in our processes, but also everything that was going well, so we could do the right moves, and take action in the right way.
The flexibility of reporting is great, we can create custom reports and slice and dice metrics as we like. We also plugged in JIRA to help us understand how much we spend on unplanned work, bugs, and track the progress of our features.
The platform also plugs into Jenkins, which allows us to measure our teams’ DORA metrics automatically.
Another fantastic thing about the platform is that we can actually visualize the performance of our teams and set targets for them, so whenever they hit a certain point, the managers are notified.
It is a really great investment for us because we can see everything that went wrong in our processes, but also everything that was going well, so we could do the right moves, and take action in the right way.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform is fairly expensive, but the ROI makes it worth the price tag.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We gained visibility into our whole software development process and improved our velocity. We used to spend hours every week calculating team performance reports, and now we just use Waydev to do that in minutes.
Lots of effective tools to manage and sustain your groups productivity
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to measure productivity per developer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integrations not available with AWS code pipeline and code build.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analytical insights into code commit patterns
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