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Customize Your Engineering Metrics Dashboards in LinearB
Nick Hodges
May 7, 2021
Introducing Custom Engineering Metrics Dashboards 🚀 I’ve been a Software Development Manager without the right metrics. Believe me, it’s a challenge. But you don’t have
WorkerB Developer Automation from LinearB
Nick Hodges
May 3, 2021
Automate manual code process tasks with WorkerB from LinearB. Repository information comes to you instead of you having to hunt for it.
Brain Time vs. Butt Time: Improve Developer Productivity
Nick Hodges
April 22, 2021
You need Butt Time of course. But Managers should not be insisting on a lot of Butt Time. To improve developer productivity, what you really want to foster is Brain Time.
Find unplanned work and match developer effort to the right project with LinearB Matchmaker
Nick Hodges
April 15, 2021
Unplanned work is the #1 cause of missed deadlines and miscommunications between engineering and business. Learn how Matchmaker can help!
Cycle Time: Measuring and Improving Team Process
Yishai Beeri
April 8, 2021
In order for engineering teams to become elite in terms of performance and delivery time, they need to continuously focus on improving their cycle time.
What Is Scrum Velocity? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Vlad Georgescu
March 24, 2021
Scrum velocity or team velocity is a measurement of development capacity. We’re looking at good, bad, and ugly uses of scrum team velocity.
Launching Software Delivery Intelligence with $16M Series A
Ori Keren
March 10, 2021
Metrics alone do not improve dev teams. For continuous improvement, engineering orgs need visibility, context and workflow automation.
How to Reduce Cycle Time in Software Delivery: 4 Tactics
Michael de Ridder
March 5, 2021
We start by recapping what cycle time is in the context of software delivery then take you through tactics so you can reduce cycle time.
Engineering Productivity: How to Measure and Improve It
Michiel Mulders
March 2, 2021
Engineering productivity helps you with measuring the efficiency of your team’s engineering process. But which metrics should you track?
Git Analytics: Boost Team Performance With These 9 Metrics
Carlos Schults
February 26, 2021
By tracking Git analytics, you can obtain accurate insights from your project and improve your team’s output. Learn how in this post.
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