The highest-performing software teams have one thing in common: they get a little bit better every day. Swarmia gives everyone in the engineering organization the insights and tools they need to improve productivity without sacrificing culture or quality.

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I know from experience that scaling a software development organization is hard. As your teams and codebase grow, complexity increases, things slow down, and your overall productivity suffers. That’s why we’re building Swarmia: a software development productivity platform that gives engineers, their managers, and leaders the insights they need to see what’s slowing them down and the tools to make concrete improvements. Swarmia connects the dots between your version control, issue tracker, and chat to help you measure research-backed engineering metrics (like DORA and SPACE framework) and use that data to make small changes that have a huge impact over time. What can you do with Swarmia? 👀 Gain instant visibility into your engineering organization 📊 Access healthy, research-backed software development metrics (no developer leaderboards or toxic metrics) 🚀 Identify and solve process bottlenecks to ship better software faster 🤝 Adopt Working Agreements with your team to improve collaboration and ensure focus on your priorities 🏓 Stay on top of your team’s work, speed up code reviews, and improve data quality with our bi-directional Slack integration Startups with up to 20 developers can use Swarmia for free. Bigger teams can try Swarmia with a free 14-day trial. Get started here: https://www.swarmia.com/ Swarmia is built on feedback so please let us know what you think in the comments!

@fares_aktouf Thank you!

I like the Code Insights feature! It is great for improving/refining processes for product development.

@ruslanfg Thanks! We have a room called "The Cycle Time Lounge" at the office named after the long hours we spent figuring out how to approach metrics in a healthy way that works for all teams — because we know that every engineering team is different.

@ruslanfg Thanks! This is one of my favorite features of Swarmia as it makes it easy to identify common bottlenecks that many teams struggle with but just can't identify if they don't have any insights into their work.

As a product guy, I've been running 4 developer teams recently. All of them are using their very own tools constellation, agile process, success metrics, etc. What I find the most difficult is having the working agreement maintained, especially when the product side is factored in. I like that you can maintain it explicitly in Swarmia and track the key metrics to get the right conversations started. Another good thing is data... In the lands of no estimates, logs are the only answer. With one of the teams, I had to dig through a year of closed Git issues to bring the case about very uneven delivery and start talking about what causes the pains. That's not a time well spent and cleaning up such historic data is cumbersome. That's where I find the idea of an analyzable log very apt to the challenge. I'd also say - put your culture next to the working agreement. Doesn't matter how great the tool is, if culture is sabotaged the tool won't save you. Actually, my insight was that when the team doesn't know what to do, they try to change the tool hoping it will bring structure and help find hidden capacity traps. Well, it can, but if capacity is indeed a problem - it can't, and changing the tooling aggravates it even more. One of my teams modified the dev-board 7 times in 1 month! Even getting used to running the process with it or driving any statistically significant idea of what works and what not was impossible:) The team was still reluctant to recognize some elephants in the room like items that were in progress for 2 months with being considered to take a week. I think Swarmia tackles lots of those issues well without extra overhead. If all parties committed it should definitely bring teams to a much better state with insights-driven increments and squeezing the most value and fun out of the dev process. I hope to try it with one of my projects if compliance allows:)

@artem_kovalyov Let us know if there's anything we can do to help with compliance so you can try out Swarmia. 👌 We're SOC 2 compliant and we can send you can get the full report by sending us an email. The challenges you describe sound like things where Swarmia can definitely help, without compromising culture or trust.

@artem_kovalyov Thanks Artem, feel free to reach out to us directly to have those compliance issues discussed. We worked with very different companies including some financial institutions, so we keep the bar high when it comes to security and compliance.

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