Flow Pros and Cons

Pluralsight Flow distinguishes itse­lf by placing a strong emphasis on develope­r growth. Through personalized reports, de­velopers are able­ to assess their own performance­ and identify areas that require­ improvement. This approach not only fosters pe­rsonal development but also contribute­s significantly to their professional growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For beginne­rs in data analytics, some of the dashboards can be ove­rwhelming due to their comple­xity. Trying to navigate through different me­trics and KPIs might seem intimidating and hinder e­ffective utilization of the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pluralsight provides analytics on many different parameters. You can view and compare trends using visualization which are easy to understand and could be very beneficial for improving your work process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some analytics are confusing or its difficult to derive out how can we use the data. It would be better if pluralsight can provide extensive explanations and real world example to use each analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simply plugs into your code base and brings out actionable insights to improve delivery, quality and collaboration, all these three are must haves for any business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some newly introduced metrics such as Jitter and backlfow are useful but are poorly designed but I am sure the team will improve upon them, Also the UI should allow export of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool gives us the feasibility to track the commits and can monitor the stucking points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool needs to improve towards tracking individual members' detailed reports to show their working and coding practices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much. I started writing my own scripts because Flow would not give me what I wanted.

I like the idea of having a consolidated dashboard for my team, but the current dashboard doesn't provide actionable items that I can bring to my 1:1s Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The idea of Flow is good, but the current implementation is limited to when a PR was done, but it doesn't have what I need:

How is the employee performing this sprint when compared with other sprints?

Are the employees working in the same area of code that they are used to? (We can check that by Jira Components)

Is the employee spending more time than the norm when reviewing a PR?

Is it possible to set alarms for it? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The breakdown of teams/individual contributors and overall view of how teams are performing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Needs more customization to create specific dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For higher level management where you need a quick overview of your teams output, it is good. But I would take the metrics with a grain of salt. I used it closely for my team for 2 years and although it supports most good behaviours of my rock star developers, the metrics does not necessarily show that they are performing better/worse than those who don't. I believe it is a good supplemental data to provide for performance but not the tell-tale metric I would use to evaluate my team. It is also quite expensive but really still half-baked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It does not provide drill down on metrics, this makes the individuals in the report question the numbers. As SMART metrics goes, each metric should be measurable. But PluralSight Flow does not provide that. This makes it difficult to provide proper mentoring to teams on what they did wrong/right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

How easy it is to get insights for teams. There's also a lot of different ways to look at the metrics, which deffinitely help with some decision making Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be a bit difficult to set the teams and the integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I find very useful in PSF is that you can work clearly see the metrics that are having the biggest impact on the team. From those metrics, I was able to tweak the team's process to see an immediate improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PSF provides a wealth of data, so I understand that it's a challenge to mesh this all together this content in a digestible format. I feel that UX experience needs some work, especially around how users can navigate between screens, as it can sometime feel clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pluralsight is continually improving upon and extending its flow services. Whilst the first iteration already gave me basic insight into the performance of my teams, the most current version gives me useful tips and advice based on the actual metrics provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes a bit of work getting the proper data in Pluralsight. Our codebase tends to move around which means we will have to re-add it to Pluralsight. This does work without issues or disruptions to the metrics, but Pluralsight does not alert you that the data has stopped coming in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.