# LinearB (team improvement) vs. Sleuth (developer tracker)

> The key to improving engineering teams is flexible data, programmable delivery pipelines, and business alignment telemetry–not rigid reports & project rollups.

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# Improvement Engine (LinearB)vs. Developer Tracking (Sleuth)

Rigid, dev-focused reports won’t help with project forecasting, accelerating timelines, or business alignment. Leaders who want to drive operational excellence and business outcomes choose LinearB for its:

DORA metrics: LinearB starts there, but goes much deeper into leading indicators

Resource Allocation: Quantify engineering impact and alignment to business priorities

Workflow Automation: Reduce cycle time by an average 44% in first 120 days

[Engineering Benchmarks:](https://linearb.io/resources/software-engineering-benchmarks-report) Understand metrics better by seeing how you stack up to the industry

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Why Choose LinearB Over Sleuth

Business Alignment Reporting

Total Metrics Flexibility

In-App Benchmarks

PR-Policy-As-Code

One Click Automation Workflows

In-App Recommendations

Project Forecasting

Improvement Playbooks

Ability to Use ANY Tool

Cost Capitalization

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## Top 5 Reasons People Choose LinearB Over Sleuth

### Workflow Automation

Metrics alone don’t improve dev teams. LinearB provides teams with actual automation (not just alerts on a trigger) that reduces toil and drives sustainable improvement at the code development level. gitStream – a workflow automation tool that applies policy rules to your repos (or entire organization) that classify and route PRs appropriately, automate security checks, and more WorkerB – a chatbot that also automates many pre-merge manual tasks devs hate, removes tedious data entry work, speeds up reviews of simple PRs, provides context about your PRs, and helps the team prioritize their day

![<p>Workflow Automation</p>](https://site-assets.plasmic.app/3ae0a1d825771a7e51d72c0f9e6a8616.png)

### Self-Service Flexibility

LinearB was built to work with every team regardless of structure or tooling. We provide customized engineering intelligence for every stage of the SDLC–populated via API using data from your PM, Git, and CI/CD data. Projects, teams, and business reporting can easily be structured and segmented in whatever way is most useful–so the tools fit your team, not the other way around.

![<p>Self-Service Flexibility</p>](https://site-assets.plasmic.app/9769961aa63141d2a638f46264fe0255.jpg)

### Project Forecasting Metrics

Give business stakeholders project delivery ETAs you are confident in. LinearB offers project forecasting metrics, which provide the hard data answers to “how is the project tracking?” LinearB customers use metrics like Planning Accuracy, Capacity Accuracy, and delivery breakdown to: 
* Surface bottlenecks
* Update the business accurately
* Determine if they can accelerate delivery
* See if they're focused on the right things
* Look into the effect unplanned and added work is having

![<p>Project Forecasting Metrics</p>](https://site-assets.plasmic.app/a57c30acd2f1281eec6776327d5822d0.png)

### In-App Benchmarking

Your team just reduced cycle time by 20% and it’s now down to 6 days. Well done! But here’s a question: Is that 6 day cycle time good compared to the industry? LinearB provides this additional level of context for DORA metrics and leading indicators like PR size–helping leaders determine how far they’ve come, how far they have to go, and what to focus on next.

![<p>In-App Benchmarking</p>](https://site-assets.plasmic.app/f5d685b2455ed0d536d3263abe336215.png)

### R&D Resource Allocation

Don’t force your CTO to walk into a board meeting and present CFR data or sprint burn down charts. Instead, show the business how engineering is impacting the bottom line using their terms. LinearB’s Resource Allocation dashboard automatically configures initiatives, projects, or any custom field from PM tools, to show cost, effort, and delivery status in a single view–making it easy to determine the ROI of projects and understand which ones are impacting the business most.

![<p>R&D Resource Allocation</p>](https://site-assets.plasmic.app/5b243cf8d8b811f3055326ce677c0503.png)

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Our Improvement Formula:

Benchmark > Automate > Improve with LinearB

## Dev-Only Metrics Are a Blurred Picture of Engineering Health

DORA metrics and git insights are great, but they’re not the only things leaders need to understand the health and business impact of their engineering organization. To drive active improvement, impact metrics, automation, and business alignment are required–Sleuth doesn’t provide all of these capabilities. LinearB does. With LinearB, you get:

Foundational metrics like DORA for free (yeah…free!)

[Industry standard benchmarking](https://linearb.io/resources/software-engineering-benchmarks-report) for goal and OKR setting

Data and KPIs used for predictable project forecasting

Delivery pipeline automation that reduces cycle time by 44%

Executive level resource allocation and cost capitalization reporting

![Chart of deployment frequency](https://site-assets.plasmic.app/7a27c04ea0228a55cba9b737b338764d.png)

## We correlate data across your tools to identify bottlenecks and automate developer workflow optimization.

Move past dev-only pipeline metrics

Get a holistic picture of engineering health & automate improvement with LinearB

Documentation

Learn how LinearB metrics can help you improve work breakdown and reduce cycle time, change failure rate, and mean time to restore.

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Blog

Explore the details of software delivery excellence, PR workflows, and how to persuade the boardroom as an engineering leader.

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Podcast

With 13,000+ community members, Dev Interrupted is your weekly source for what engineering leaders are thinking, doing, & solving.

[Listen to the Dev Interrupted Podcast](https://devinterrupted.com/podcasts/)

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