Flow Reviews & Product Details

Flow provides metrics useful for large distributed engineering organizations that both apply to individual achievement and team collaboration. It offers fundamental metrics such as coding days, impact, and time to merge that teams need to be able to improve. The investment categories report is very useful for reporting on where the team is actually spending their time, and DORA metrics can help accelerate time to shipping code. Unlike a lot of tools like this Flow offers hierarchical team structures that are useful for large groups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flow integrates tightly with Git, and is dependent on the flow teams use to be able to capture some information. For example, if individuals do most of their work in private forks, and then squash and merge their changes, some data is lost and certain metrics will not be accurate without a larger administrative overhead, such as setting up multiple Github connections to read individuals' private spaces. Related to this there are issues around merging identities to make sure work is attributed to the right person that can become a burden at the scale of hundreds of engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When working properly, the product can provide valuable insight into finding talent within your organization. It can also help find developers that struggle and improve their coding and code review practices.

The product is in constant evolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The operational overhead to manage users, teams, repositories and git forks is unbearable. They really need to fix their git alias matching system. The user roles and groups are not integrated with other Pluralsight products like SKILLS which doesn't help.

Over the years, we faced multiple outages that caused the users to question the validity of the data. It is difficult to use as an input for performance when people question the reliability of FLOW. Efficiency is a metric that cannot be used reliably and coding days get impacted by normal operating practices like squashing commits and deleting branches.

Pluralsight has a pricing strategy that is not really compatible with the SaaS model. They had us commit in a multi-year contract and refused to revisit the license count for SKILLS and FLOW. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Provides granular view into software development practices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the KPIs are not easy to validate with its granular data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to visualize all of the commits and other participation from the team.

Most of the time this info is locked behind a wall of skill in jira, github or azure, this is bypassed by Flow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't make more granular queries or differentiate between or integrate different repositories. Discriminate branches or branch patters out of the statistics. Also, peer programming tracking can be tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Helps give insight into what the team is doing. Provides concise reports that are easily digestible and help me understand what is going on within my team. The PR's report is the most helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can be used as a tool to misrepresent an individual if not used carefully. Data needs context and without getting the context it could be used to paint the wrong picture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pluralsight is a great place to learn about new technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Courses on ChatGPT don't really help us integrate their functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The weekly activity summary is where I spend most of my time. It provides a very convenient view of all actions taken by all members across several weeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some metrics like "impact" and "daily commits" have perplexing heuristics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very condensed and relavant content, for flow based learning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Load speed need to increase especially in the begin Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Integration with bitbucket is seamless.

2. I can compare my teams performance against other teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Some metrics are confusing or it is not clear how it is calculated

2. There's so much data in flow, but it is not clear what conclusion I can derive from them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pluralsight puts our Team metrics in easy to read charts. I use the daily activity insight multiple times per week to measure Sprint performance and help look for signals regarding performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do feel like the UI could be updated. I would also like the API to offer much more granular level data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.