LinearB, a software engineering intelligence platform, has empowered our engineering leaders with data-driven insights to support continuous improvement. It aligns key areas such as benchmarking, workflow automation and targeted investments in enhancing developer experience and productivity. Our experience with LinearB highlights its ability to foster a culture of improvement and efficiency within engineering teams. Our teams have used the platform to track key engineering metrics, identify areas for enhancement and implement evidence-based actions. These capabilities align well with LinearB’s core value proposition: benchmarking, automating metric collection and enabling data-driven improvements. LinearB integrates with source code, application lifecycle, CI/CD and communication tools and uses both preconfigured and custom engineering metrics to provide comprehensive quantitative insights into developer experience, productivity and team performance. As advocates of DORA, we appreciate LinearB’s strong emphasis on these specific metrics and its ability to measure key aspects of software delivery performance, which are essential for improving efficiency. Historically, teams have faced challenges in gathering DORA-specific metrics, often relying on complex custom dashboards or manual processes. LinearB continues to offer a compelling solution that automates the tracking of these metrics and delivers real-time data that supports proactive decision-making around developer experience, productivity and predictability.
LinearB is a platform designed to empower engineering leaders with data-driven insights for continuous improvement. It tackles three key areas: benchmarking, workflow automation and investment. Our experience with LinearB's metrics tooling highlights its potential to support a culture of continuous improvement. One of our teams leveraged the platform to track engineering metrics, identify and discuss improvement opportunities and define actionable steps based on data, leading to measurable progress. We're happy to see that this aligns with LinearB's core value proposition: benchmark, automate and improve. LinearB integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Jira. It offers a comprehensive suite of preconfigured engineering metrics, with a strong focus on DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore). As strong advocates of the four key metrics as defined by the DORA research, we appreciate LinearB's emphasis on measuring what truly matters for software delivery performance. Historically, gathering DORA-specific metrics has been a challenge. Teams have resorted to complex CD pipeline instrumentation, custom-built dashboards or rely on manual processes. Although our experience is limited to one team, LinearB seems to be a compelling alternative for gathering and tracking engineering metrics as well as fostering a data-driven approach to continuous improvement.
