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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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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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"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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Maximiliano V.
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What do you like best about Flow?

It is not bulletproof but gives you a very good overall understanding of your team's performance. It has a nice UI to identify gaps for your developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

It doesn't handle co-author from git, so there will be missing data if that's something common in your teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Performance for my teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason T.
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What do you like best about Flow?

The insights go beyond trivial metrics like lines of code and uncover what really matters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

It's expensive. Ideally it would cost about half as much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Flow allows us to track dev effectiveness ver time and evaluate the effectiveness of process changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajinkya B.
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What do you like best about Flow?

Good analytics, insight over developer GitHub activities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

It would be great if we could get more clearity on pr review analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Help me me in reviewing my performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flow?

Flow features integration with popular developer tools such as GitHub. This integration allows Flow to analyze code repositories and provide insights into the skills and expertise of team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

Can be overly complicated in the data it provides. In some instances, Flow offers a lower level of confidence if data is missing or appears incorrect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

assess, develop, and manage the skills of their engineering teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flow?

All my developers in my team absolutely love Flow. They've learnt a lot about their improvement areas and can see improvement over time with data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

It was relatively confusing to understand for us. However after using it for a while you get the hang of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps provide data on the quality and efficiency of our engineering efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flow?

The automatization of the information of each team member. The graphics are useful once you understand them. Also we can share the information with our developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

It is confusing at the beginning, where the information come, how can we read the graphics and guide the developers to read their data. If we don't have git development, then the information won't be shown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The follow-up of the quality and velocity of the developer's performance, as a group, how can we manage our process and metrics. It helps with the 1-1 meetings giving information to discuss (data). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert L.
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What do you like best about Flow?

It is a good way to observe data when comparing it to your intuition. It's a great dashboard for git and Jira work. It's also a place you can go to learn your work patterns as you try to improve yourself. As a leader, it is also a helpful guide to identifying who and what to mentor. It's also easy to spot top performers, as you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

It's just data, as it lacks context. Current work may be more research or learning-oriented which changes commit patterns. Don't make personal decisions just on this data.

Wish it we also track confluence work, as we plan our development using conflunce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Flow:

Use it with human context Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Trust that remote work is occurring was why product was selected. This was before the pandemic when most of us used to work in the office. The benefits now are Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Artur L.
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What do you like best about Flow?

The solution provides a lot of data on the software production process. It facilitates the scaling of the team and the growth of the organization. They will relieve technical leaders from manually analyzing data

makes it easier to set goals for teams and developers.

Providers of additional information (measures) in areas difficult to measure (e.g. knowledge sharing) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

Configuration, user management (e.g. users merging) is something that should be ensured that the data is correct. But it's still nothing compared to the benefit of the solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Flow:

Check out the trial period on a small team , then gradually expand the scope to more teams.

Explain to your people why you are giving them a new tool, what the benefits will be.

Don't take it as a "control only" tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Thanks to the tool, we rely not only on verbal opinions, but also on hard (measured) facts. There is greater variation on what work is done in teams, or whether they are consistent with the stories for sure.

There is greater transparency, it is easier to introduce changes in the production process. (you can measure the impact of a given change)

We have been using the tool since 2019 (before covid). We could easily measure the impact of remote work on teams' performance. We were not afraid to make changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flow?

Helps us track our impact on the team and how efficient we are with our work which I believe will help us improve by setting a benchmark for ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

I believe it would be more flexible if we could have metrics to compare the quality of code as well rather than just quantity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is generally hard to keep a track of how impactful you are to the team and Plural Sight provides metrics which helps us identify it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Flow?

The platform allows evaluating the impact of each developer by project, technology, team, among others. Not only at the development level as such, but also in how it shares knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flow?

What I like least is that the metric used for days of code is not so clear, if a commit is mixed with another, the history that was advanced is lost.

How to measure that metric could be better configured.

Also the date filters are not so clear (last month maybe should be the last month from the current day, not the previous one) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The tool has allowed us to measure the impact of each member of the team and generate incentives to meet goals that we set for ourselves as a team. We have improved the consistency in which we upload codes since everyone cares that their work is reflected on the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.