What does engineering operational excellence looks like? Ori Keren and Dan Lines, co-founders of LinearB, struggled to come up with an objective answer to this question during their time together on the executive team at Cloudlock, a cybersecurity company acquired by Cisco in 2016. Despite the overall success of Cloudlock, the VPs of R&D and Engineering struggled with rapid people and product growth and often found themselves making decisions based on intuition. They believe with the right data, software development execs can speak a common language with business leaders, team leads can remove delivery bottlenecks and ship faster and devs can help their teammates more and be happier at work.