If you’re interested in concrete tips for building better software faster, you’ve come to the right place.| www.swarmia.com
Many software engineering intelligence tools market themselves as “developer-friendly.” It makes sense, because developers are rightfully…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Product discovery in software engineering is half art, half discipline, and an entirely necessary part of building good products. When done…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
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
Swarmia allows you to measure and improve all five elements of the SPACE of developer productivity. Get started with a demo or a free trial.| www.swarmia.com
Swarmia connects GitHub and Slack to speed up developer workflows, automate feedback loops, and improve collaboration.| www.swarmia.com
Whether you’re looking to track DORA metrics for one team or the whole engineering organization, Swarmia gives you the exact data you need.| www.swarmia.com
Swarmia combines research-backed insights with tools that help modern software teams improve business outcomes, developer productivity, and developer experience.| www.swarmia.com
Setting deadlines in software engineering is like scheduling creativity. It doesn’t really work, and pretending it does might end up costing…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Measuring AI impact feels necessary, but we don’t know what good looks like yet. Lessons from 1995: why learning beats metrics in transformational moments.| www.swarmia.com
Good engineering leaders care deeply about developer productivity, but they’re often unsure about how best to measure it. They worry that…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
At a crossroads with choosing a software engineering intelligence platform? Our buyer’s guide is here to help. In it, you’ll learn what makes a good SEI platform, and how to choose the right one for your business.| www.swarmia.com
Identify and eliminate software delivery bottlenecks with a combination of research-backed metrics and developer tooling.| www.swarmia.com
Make informed decisions about engineering investments, initiatives, and software capitalization.| www.swarmia.com
Metrics tell you what happened, but signals tell you why it matters — and what to do next. With them, you can focus on making improvements instead of figuring out where to start.| www.swarmia.com
Combine developer experience surveys, adoption data, and usage patterns to understand how GenAI coding tools play into your software organization’s productivity.| www.swarmia.com
Congratulations! You’ve just unlocked one of the more mysterious quests in software leadership: figuring out how much of your team’s work…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
We’re announcing $11M in Series A funding led by Karma Ventures and DIG Ventures, with participation from existing investors Alven and Lifeline Ventures.| www.swarmia.com
Software capitalization doesn’t have to be painful. This guide shows engineering leaders how to track CapEx, satisfy auditors, and keep developers happy.| www.swarmia.com
Understand where engineering time is going so you can strike the right balance between different types of work, from maintenance to roadmap work and more.| www.swarmia.com
Swarmia surfaces research-backed engineering metrics, including DORA and SPACE, and insights that guide software organizations to take concrete action.| www.swarmia.com
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If that developer productivity framework you implemented hasn’t led to real improvements, it may not be your fault. Learn how these 3 popular frameworks stack up.| www.swarmia.com
Building vs. buying engineering intelligence — and when "a simple dashboard" can become your most expensive engineering maintenance cost.| www.swarmia.com
Engineering metrics aren’t just for engineering managers. It pays off big time for product managers to stay in the loop too – here’s how I do it with Swarmia.| www.swarmia.com
Run developer experience surveys in Swarmia to collect and analyze feedback and concrete improvement ideas from your software engineers.| www.swarmia.com
Learn how reframing developer experience can help you secure the resources you need to create change that benefits both engineers and the business as a whole.| www.swarmia.com
Software complexity has long been a topic of interest for engineering teams seeking to maintain productive, sustainable codebases. In this blog post, we explore the relationship between complexity and developer productivity.| www.swarmia.com
IBM made a fascinating discovery in the 1970s: products with the lowest defect counts consistently had the shortest development schedules…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
“Our most recent survey closed quite a while ago, but I’ve yet to share the actions we’re taking based on it. We don’t want to send people…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
When software organizations start thinking about developer productivity, they often focus on individuals and teams — examining their…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Everyone’s excited about the potential of GenAI in software development, and for good reason. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor.ai, and…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Flow is a rich concept in software development that encompasses multiple aspects of how work gets done. While we often discuss flow in terms…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Call it what you want, but topics related to “ developer productivity ” and “ developer experience ” are at the top of many engineering…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
In 2024, our efforts to build the most comprehensive software engineering intelligence platform continued to pay off as we welcomed a record…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Seeing engineering productivity data for the first time can be an eye-opening experience. You notice a high pull request cycle time, dig…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
There’s increasing demand — from both senior engineering leaders and non-technical executives — to take some objective measurement of…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
When you’re trying to improve the effectiveness of your software engineering organization, a handful of metrics can help you identify…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Have you ever worked for a new startup with just a couple of developers? It’s pretty amazing, for a while. You know everything about the…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
When you’re trying to improve the effectiveness of your software engineering organization, a handful of metrics can help you identify…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
“The world is full of well-meaning people who believe that anyone who can write plain English and has a modicum of common sense can produce…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
2023 was a year of change and growth for us as we set our sights on supporting more leadership use cases, grew the team with several key…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Once a software engineering organization has a few teams, engineering leaders are called upon to manage projects that span those teams. It’s…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Earlier this year, Swarmia and LeadDev partnered with a research firm to understand the metrics that software engineering teams rely on…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Before joining Swarmia, I worked at Stripe for two years in its developer productivity organization. The single most interesting thing I got…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Within the last few years, using the four key DORA metrics has become one of the most popular ways of tracking software delivery…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
There’s plenty of content out there on what we’re coming around to calling “engineering effectiveness,” the work of ensuring that an…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
At Swarmia, we get to see hundreds of different development workflows from our customers, and have greatly enjoyed learning from them. We…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
When you’re working on improving developer experience , one of the most challenging parts of the job is to prove that the work you’re doing…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from my time as an engineering manager, and later as a product manager, it’s this: Talking about…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Insights on an individual developer can be a scary topic. As developers, we’re often understandably allergic to the thought of our work…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
So many developer productivity journeys start with a spreadsheet. Quickly or eventually, that spreadsheet evolves into a tool for tracking…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
At Swarmia, we’re all about helping modern engineering teams build great products, start better conversations, and create a culture of…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
An engineering leader recently told me: “ I'd love to start improving our ways of working, but we need to ship a couple of features by the…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Let’s say you have a data-intensive app with a bunch of complicated querying needs. As things progress and your needs expand, the data…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
At Swarmia, we use the tagline "ship 10x faster.” To many, that sounds like an audacious claim. This blog post is the long footnote behind…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
When you’re considering investing in an early stage software startup, it’s difficult to predict its future performance — especially if the…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
At Swarmia, we’re all about helping engineering teams ship better software faster by focusing on fewer things at a time. And our team is no…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Coffee is an important ingredient in creating successful software development organizations. In this blog post, we explain how to to apply…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Leaders often feel proud of their high performers. In reality, having "10x engineers" in your software organization may be a sign of an…| Swarmia.com RSS Feed
Introducing Swarmia's approach to software development, continuous improvement, and engineering metrics.| 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
Most engineering leaders know they should run developer surveys. But the tricky part is knowing what to ask. That’s why in this post, we share our 32-question survey framework.| www.swarmia.com
If you’re digging into engineering metrics for the first time, it can be hard to know what “good” looks like. That’s why we’ve published engineering benchmarks to help you form realistic ambitions for a set of core engineering effectiveness metrics.| www.swarmia.com
Throwing more people at an engineering productivity problem is rarely the right solution. In this blog post, we discuss five typical causes of slowness and present practical ways for your team to maintain productivity.| www.swarmia.com
Today, having Continuous Integration is table stakes. Yet, CI pipelines are a common cause for developer frustration. And that’s why in this blog post, we walk through the five properties that make for a great CI experience.| 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
If you’re starting out on a productivity journey, consider how your company’s size, age, and culture will inform how you think about the problem and the path you take from here.| www.swarmia.com
The fundamental mission of a platform team is straightforward: ensure that the value provided by the platform substantially exceeds the costs of implementing it. But when should you spin up a platform team?| www.swarmia.com
Learn what developer experience is, why it is important, and how to measure and improve developer experience.| www.swarmia.com
We’re excited to let you know that Swarmia is now officially SOC 2 Type 2 compliant! Here’s what that means for our current and future customers.| 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 your daily stand-ups feel like a waste of time, they probably are. Here’s what’s wrong with most stand-ups — and what you can do about it.| 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
Learn the essentials of the SPACE framework: the what, the why, best practices, and steps to get started — including an example template.| www.swarmia.com
At Swarmia, we’re all about building dev tools that support communication and collaboration. And our bi-directional integration between Slack and GitHub is one of the main ways we do that. Here’s how it works.| 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
Calculating DORA change failure rate is simple once you get your data right. Learn what you should consider before you start measuring it.| www.swarmia.com
We’re big on Apollo GraphQL here at Swarmia, but we’ve sometimes struggled with mocking. This blog post is here to help!| www.swarmia.com
In this article, we introduce a framework for balancing engineering investments across four categories and explain how to get started.| 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
If your software team isn’t shipping fast enough, you’ll want to optimize issue cycle time. Here’s how to identify and fix a few of the most common problems.| www.swarmia.com
Planning is one of the skills that separates great product teams from the good ones. Here’s the process we follow at Swarmia to plan stories as a team.| www.swarmia.com
Update (Dec 15, 2022): Swarmia is now officially SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. This post is about our journey to SOC 2 Type 1 in 2021.| 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
Retrospectives using only subjective data easily lead to skewed insights and actions. One solution is to add a "present hard data" step to your retrospectives.| www.swarmia.com
Learn why the most successful teams use code reviews, how to adopt them with your team, and what 16 best practices we recommend.| www.swarmia.com
Every software leader should know these four reliable resources on software team productivity. There are no silver-bullets, but understanding these studies will help you make meaningful improvements in your 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