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Flow Overview

What is Flow?

Flow helps engineering leaders to optimize their software delivery while building happier, healthier teams. Leveraging Flow enables leaders to eliminate developer friction and wasted efforts through analyzing and surfacing data from your code repositories and Agile tools. Over the last decade, we've refined our product based on feedback from hundreds of enterprise clients, allowing us to curate the data you need to: - Optimize your engineering efforts by ensuring developer work aligns to business priorities - Identify bottlenecks and developer friction, and build healthy development patterns - Improve knowledge sharing and collaboration, coach and develop engineers, reduce onboarding ramp time, and lead inclusively and objectively - Help individual developers better understand their contributions and overcome imposter syndrome …and more!

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Flow offers metrics for software engineering management and is designed to help engineering managers measure software developer productivity based on data from GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket or any Git based code repository.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

We bring 8+ years of experience to the software development analytics field, and have written the book on implementing tools like Flow with enterprise software development teams. Over the years, we have refined our product to fit into your team’s routines and surface the insights you need to make strategic decisions.

We are a partner to our customers and are experts in cultural rollout and change management. Our deployment and Professional Services teams ensure that you are not only gaining insights into your development processes and workflows, but also building happy, healthy and high-achieving teams. Our experience and dedication to our customers has resulted in Flow providing the best ROI of any product in the category.

We are the only organization to have a fully-staffed research team dedicated to identifying how organizations can help their engineering teams thrive. Their research will inform where we take our product in the future.


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Appfire
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Burlington, Massachusetts
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Appfire is the leading global provider of software that enhances, extends, and connects the world's leading platforms to make work flow any way teams want to work, from planning to product ideation, product development, project delivery, and beyond. Appfire increases the value of platforms such as Atlassian, Microsoft, monday.com, and Salesforce, enabling teams to thrive and do their best work together. With more than one million users, Appfire's popular solutions are helping teams with Enterprise Collaboration, DevOps, Workflow & Automation, Product Portfolio Management, IT Service Management (ITSM), Document Management, Business Intelligence and Reporting, Administrative Tools, Agile Tools, Developer Tools, Time Tracking, Publishing, and Integrations. Appfire has been selling its popular software products on the Atlassian Marketplace since it first launched in
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, and today Appfire has the most widely adopted portfolio of Atlassian apps across tens of thousands of customers worldwide.


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5.0 out of 5
"Pluralsight Flow - A review on Insights to efficient workflow management"
Provides excellent visibility into the team's workflow efficiency. It helps in identifying bottlenecks and improving overall productivity. Its anal...
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"Pluralsight Flow Help me Track my Team Performance"
I am thoroughly impressed with the Pluralsight Flow app! It has revolutionised the way I track and analyze my coding activities. The app's interfac...
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Flow Demo - Check-In
Check-in supports concise, data-driven status updates and customizable goals for engineers and their managers to use in 1:1 meetings.
Flow Demo - Retrospective Dashboard
The Retrospective Dashboard enables you to coach to the future by understanding your team's historical performance.
Flow Demo - Work Log
Work Log provides a visualization of the diversity and volume of work that individuals or teams engage in.
Flow Demo - Sprint Movement
Sprint Movement visualizes the Sprint process so teams can effectively plan Sprints, and deliver more predictably.
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Saurabh S.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Flow?

Ease of Use, Ease of Implementation, Very straightforward integration with Git and Jira, Intuitive UI, excellent customer support, Relevant for all roles in an Engineering and PM org, Fast ROI in terms of actionable insights to improve efficiencu and efficacy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

Reporting could be better in terms of multiple views for a team on the same chart or seeing data for multiple teams in the same chart. Need percentiles for some key metrics as boundary conditions interfere and distort averages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Engineering Efficacy and Efficency, Validating trends that actual work is aligned with the planned strategic investments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Flow?

- It's very useful for signalling when there may be unnoticed performance issues, or "unsung heroes" on a team who do a lot of work in the background without being noticed for it.

- It's very useful for sense checking impressions of developer output.

- A lot of the metrics correlate well with other impressions of developer productivity and output.

- It can be useful for highlighting particular development areas in a team

- It's easy to see a developer's work at a glance without resorting to multople tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

- Much of the data can't be pulled out via an API. To be really excellent I'd like to be able to pipe all the data from it into our analytics system so I can crunch the data from it together with that from other systems, set up custom dashboards, etc. The API doesn't pull out all the data you can get from the UX.

- The UX is heavyweight and takes a while to get to grips with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Getting an impression of developer output that can be used as an early stage signal for over/underperformance to drill into. In practiceI 've used it a lot more to identify overperformers who get a lot of work done.

Giving an overview of what developers are doing in one place, which can be useful to feed into 1:1 coversations etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Flow?

It uses data to drive curiosity and to help find the questions to ask (especially larger) teams to help them improve. Really good at helpful visualisation around what behaviours may be inadvertently driving sub-optimal outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

Ability for poor leaders and managers to weaponize. The data and algorithms need to be treated as somewhat arbitrary and need to be triangulated across multiple data points and along with helpful, inquisitive questions to determine where improvements could be made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better insight into engineering efficacy to help teams drive through questions around continuous improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flow?

Number of metrics

It's not just one or two, there are many, which gives you different view into your role.

You can think analyse plan how to be a better developer with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

Again, the numbers if used within a team, it's hard not to gamify it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

How do you judge a developer? Based on outcome of what?

PSF at least gives you one window to judge. It paints a picture, gives an idea weather are you regressing or judge focusing on someone else? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christine M.
CM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Flow?

variety in reports provided either individual or team reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

not being able to customise or filter the reports nor extract them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped Product and Engineering department on having different measures for productivity, effeciency, predictability and effectiveness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joe H.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Flow?

We get to see our team's performance as well as individual performances. We are a small startup so it's important that we can see the impact each individual makes to our overall goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

It can be a little buggy at times (slow loading, temporarily missing data) but these problems are transient and their support team is very responsive. For the price, it should be more reliably but I never really need the data that instant, so we live with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a very small development team where each person is working on their own projects and workstreams. We can measure their performance and identify problems early so that we can course correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flow?

Pluralsight allows us to access detailed analytics and data that helps us find issues and improve the team workflow. It is completely customizable and can allow us to customize the entire workflow as per our team needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

Pluralsight is a quite complex platform and it has bit steep lurning curve in the beginning for new teams. also I found the integration process with other some tools is a bit complex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pluralsight Flow solves our project workflow and project delivery process and helps our dev team to work and collaborate efficiently. It is an overall a complete package for development process for our teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monika V.
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Technical Lead
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Flow?

Pluralsight has a wide variety of reports which are parameterized and have scales to judge the health of the work of a team or an organization. The visuals are also very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

In some areas, the terms are a bit hard to understand, like JITTERS, but still, the information and data provided in support is handy for understanding the topic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Pluralsight Flow is helping in getting the exact picture of how frequently the team is developing and putting in the commits. Also, if the quality of the code is maintained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepthi M.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Flow?

As a manager, it helps me understand the insights around the health of the sprints and for better comparison. Identifying the anti-patterns and planning on an action item is simpler.

The contribution chart helps plan the work distribution efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

A few metrics, like PR resolution time, are not visually understandable, which can be improved.

Ther can be a report that showcases the comparison of trends from selected timeline. Currently we are doing this manually in excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping the team manage and track a few parameters like early checkin (through 'project timeline' graph), maintaining a healthy 'PR resolution', Identifying high bus factors with the 'total work breakdown' and identifying knowledge silos with the 'Review collaboration'/'Knowledge sharing'. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alifya K.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Flow?

Player cards are useful to see insights and patterns for individual and aggregate team level productivity metrics especially code commits and PR reviews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

Aliases that get pulled from various sources and management of primary emails used to track users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Flow solving and how is that benefiting you?

User activity in GitHub and Jira.

Bottlenecks and patterns of work being done in teams.

User management.

Capacity constraints and burn out signals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.