AI tools promise faster coding. Too bad that’s not your actual problem. Here’s why engineering fundamentals matter more than most AI metrics you’re being told to track.| www.swarmia.com
Building vs. buying engineering intelligence — and when "a simple dashboard" can become your most expensive engineering maintenance cost.| www.swarmia.com
Working agreements put engineering teams in charge of their continuous improvement. They allow teams to set and track numeric targets and adopt industry best practices.| www.swarmia.com
High change lead time indicates productivity challenges on a software engineering team. By understanding and addressing the common culprits, teams can streamline their processes and deliver faster, higher-quality results.| www.swarmia.com
Interruptions — anything that yanks a developer out of that elusive “flow” state — can appear out of nowhere. When you make your processes interruption-aware, your team can focus on what they do best: building great products.| www.swarmia.com
Learn what developer experience is, why it is important, and how to measure and improve developer experience.| www.swarmia.com
Over 50% of active Swarmia users are software engineers. In this post, we explain how our own engineering team uses Swarmia to do better work.| www.swarmia.com
If you’re trying to decide whether to measure cycle time or velocity, cycle time is typically the better option. In this blog post, we explain why.| www.swarmia.com
Just because you can measure something doesn’t mean you should. In this article, we discuss the downsides of common Git metrics and suggest research-backed alternatives.| www.swarmia.com
Eight great reasons why you should write small pull requests and tips on how to do it in practice.| www.swarmia.com
While the four DORA metrics are a useful tool for understanding your software delivery performance, here are some things you should know before you jump head-first into measuring them.| www.swarmia.com
The software world gave up too soon on measuring development productivity, deeming it impossible. A few years ago a new wave of research arrived that proved otherwise. After discussing the foundations for this measurement approach, this article will share some practical tips for instrumenting a modern high-performance and continuously improving development organization.| www.swarmia.com
Learn everything you need to get started with working agreements: the what, the why, best practices, and example templates.| www.swarmia.com