Swarmia – Leveraging State-Of-The-Art Engineering Productivity Solutions to Support Team Leads and Speed up Software Delivery

The Silicon Review

Swarmia is an engineering productivity platform that gives engineering leaders, managers, and teams the insights they need to see what’s slowing them down and the tools to resolve those blockers. It connects with the platforms your engineering teams are already using: source code hosting, issue tracker, and chat. With Swarmia, you can measure key engineering metrics (like DORA, SPACE, and more) and use those insights to make gradual changes across productivity, collaboration, and workflow.

Why Swarmia

Visibility: Teams need transparency to improve their ways of working. Gain an accurate view of where your team's time is spent, and boost focus on work that matters. Swarmia's team-centric approach ensures that every contribution is assigned to the right team, person, and project across all systems.

Flow insights: Best software teams deliver value continuously. Use meaningful agile metrics to diagnose productivity issues, remove blockers and increase velocity. Get a clear view into your development pipeline. Understand what slows teams down, and improve code quality with actionable metrics.

Code insights: Get a clear view into your development pipeline. Understand what slows teams down, and improve code quality with actionable metrics. Make continuous improvement a habit by adopting practices followed by the industry's best performers. Automate feedback loops and measure progress.

Engineering Productivity Solutions Offered

Working Agreements: Make continuous improvement a habit by adopting practices followed by the industry's best performers. Automate feedback loops and measure progress. Teams need transparency to improve their ways of working. Gain an accurate view of where your team's time is spent, and boost focus on work that matters. When it comes to building a high-performing engineering organization, tracking the right metrics is the first step. But to make sure the insights don't just sit on a dashboard, Swarmia also allows your teams to set their own working agreements and reminds them on Slack when they're about to slip.

Engineering Metric: Swarmia gives engineering leaders, managers, and teams' access to non-toxic engineering metrics — including DORA and SPACE. Here’s what you can (and can’t) measure with Swarmia. Swarmia is not just a dashboard for the engineering leadership. In addition to high-level metrics, it also gives teams visibility into their workflow and possible bottlenecks. Quickly understand how much time your engineering organization is spending on different types of work. Once you've established the optimal balance between roadmap work, chores, refactoring, firefighting, bug fixing, and unplanned work, you'll be able to use these insights to guide your engineering teams' focus. Flow metrics like cycle time, cycle time for issues, and deployment frequency allow engineering teams to see how well the engine is running. By analyzing outliers and periods of inactivity, you'll be able to recognize and resolve systemic issues that negatively impact throughput. Additionally, Swarmia's Slack notifications nudge your team to keep code flowing and cycle times low.

Team and Code Health: There are two ways you can look at the health of an engineering organization: the health of the team and the quality of the code they write. Swarmia helps you build good habits like limiting work in progress, working together on bigger issues, and distributing code reviews evenly within the team. As for the health of the code, Swarmia also allows you to keep track of bugs and their share of all work. Swarmia focuses on improving development productivity on the team and organization level. That's why you won't find developer leaderboards or other harmful activity metrics in Swarmia.

Deployment Frequency: Deployment frequency measures how often your organization successfully releases code to production. Swarmia gives you visibility into deployment frequency and batch size (i.e. the lines of code changed per pull request). This way, your whole team gets a clear understanding of the relationship between pull request size and the frequency of deployments, allowing you to optimize your processes and workflows. The Pull Requests view in Swarmia allows you to keep track of the four stages of your team's PR cycle time: in progress, review, merge, and release. You can also set team-wide working agreements to make sure that no PRs stay open longer than X days or that reviews happen within X hours.

Otto Hilska, Founder & CEO