LinearB Reviews & Product Details

One of the best monitoring tools I've found for keeping tabs on a project's progress is LinearB. The Dashboard view of the CI/CD deployments is the best feature. We can integrate the tool with the Jira/ADO board to track the status of deployments. Connecting to the Git stream to track pipeline execution, repository changes, and review status is the most crucial step.

Really appreciate the customer service team for answering all questions and for setting up demo sessions as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No comments as such. Will come up with any queries in the near feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB is designed with a user-first approach, ensuring that every feature is intuitive and easy to navigate. From day one, you find yourself effortlessly harnessing the platform's power, streamlining your workflow without any hassle.

LinearB provides a dedicated success manager, someone who's not just there to answer your questions but to deeply understand your unique needs. The success manager works closely with you to tailor the platform's functionalities to your project, ensuring you get the most out of every feature.

One of the most frustrating aspects of the previous solution we were using was the uncertainty surrounding data accuracy. With LinearB, you can put those worries to rest. The data is accurate, and not processed by any proprietary ML model that makes backtracking data impossible.

Also, the solution just works as designed - which is not that obvious. With data coming from multiple streams and platforms it's essential that there are no disconnections or lost data.

Moreover, they are constantly adding new features offering early access to those.

Finally, their support is super responsive and competent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing I can complain about as of now, I'd like to see tools for SPACE framework like integration with calendars for FLOW tracking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has several standout features that truly enhance our workflow. One of the most valuable aspects is its remarkable visibility into teams and groups, which allows us to quickly identify what is working well, and what needs our attention. With full support for standards like DORA and the inclusion of benchmarks, LinearB offers a clear picture of how our teams are progressing, making it an ideal tool for effective communication between engineering managers and stakeholders. Our teams enjoy using LinearB to improve their processes and increase their overall performance. Having objective measures that help drive data-driven decisions, means our teams are always experimenting with ways to improve their impact. The constant addition of new features, such as the Projects view and Grouping, showcases LinearB’s dedication to staying innovative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Despite its strengths, LinearB does have some areas that could be improved. Its detailed nature can sometimes make upward management challenging. I’d appreciate a streamlined scorecard-type reports that include benchmarks for easier summary reporting to senior leadership. Additionally, the initial configuration that compared individual performance within teams posed challenges during the tool rollout. However, LinearB’s quick response in offering the option to disable this view showed their attentiveness to user feedback. One potential area for growth is actionable insights; introducing contextual guiding insights, as some competitors do, could significantly enhance the platform’s utility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using LinearB for almost a year. LinearB is a robust tool for those who want to keep improving their development process. By robust, I mean anything and everything that can be counted, measured, and tracked is available for teams to review from Jira and Git.

We started with Panning Accuracy and had immediate improvements made with how teams worked their sprints. I had been tracking metrics for years using a spreadsheet, but LinearB has all the metrics already visible. The trends for specific numbers is also visible which makes it easier to identify areas to focus.

The metrics from Git allow the teams to really understand best practices and can track their improvements. The details from Git are easy to understand with plenty of insight at the detail level. There are tools too to help with Git: WorkerB which controls individual developer notifications and Team Goals which includes a dashboard with editable metrics letting the team identify their focus.

Saves time, provides great insight. What else could you want?

PS. Managers love it too and can get insight at a high level for how their teams are performing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With any tool, set-up is required. This can be difficult initially. LinearB does have settings which allow for quick set-up and then refining as needed, per team. But since these settings are per team, training needs can be time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall it's an easy-to-use tool that focuses on the metrics that engineering teams already care about. The focus on DORA and other supporting metrics made it easy to get teams to buy into the "why" we were using this tool and the easy onboarding and interface made it simple for teams to start looking for areas of improvement. When you combine this with a great customer success team that helped to train our teams we were able to start to see results quickly.

As we focus on small empowered development teams giving them the tooling and visibility of if they are achieving fast flow, and if not helping them find the bottlenecks and areas of improvement has been incredibly valuable. Just by giving our teams this visibility, we reduced cycle times significantly within the first 90 days.

From an executive perspective, the aggregations available to measure overall team performance and health has been valuable to ensure leadership focuses on the right things and not just the things making the most noise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After initial setup manual team management (leavers, joiners, changes) can be a challenge, especially if you're operating with small teams or teams empowered to restructure freely to achieve objectives. They've made progress with Github teams integration which we've yet to explore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that LinearB uses the already available information from our use of GitHub and Jira to produce metrics without any manual intervention. Instead of spending time manually putting different metrics together in a spreadsheet to understand how engineering teams are doing, I can focus my time in digesting these metrics to identify opporuntity areas and come up with a plan to make our teams run more efficiently.

One of my most used features is Projects to understand how well our teams are planning their sprints and how much work are we adding into the sprint. While this information is avilable through sprint reports in Jira, it's very hard to consume there. LinearB does a great job at displaying this information in a very user friendly manner and is highly customizable to pull data by team, bord, epic, etc.

LinearB is also constantly releasing out new features and their support team is great to work with. Always responding very quickly and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to see a bit more of harmonization across the different metrics available in the tool. While the metrics themselves are good and insightful, some of them are available to display by sprint, others by week. It would be good to be able to see things under the same lens when looking at teams metrics without having to manually use a custom date picker to replicate the sprint duration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB is remarkably user-friendly and straightforward to set up, ensuring a seamless integration into existing workflows. It empowers stakeholders with the ability to access and review insightful data for individual teams, entire projects, or even broader departmental trends. The impact of LinearB on our organization has been profound, enriching our retrospective discussions with actionable talking points and driving a culture of continuous improvement across the board. The software's data-backed insights eliminate the guesswork previously associated with pinpointing areas for improvement, offering clear direction for teams to focus their efforts.

Our engineers have particularly enjoyed the WorkerB Slackbot. Notably, the review pickup time has shown a plummetted, resulting in enhanced efficiency without blowing up Slack with unnecessary noise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While LinearB stands as a fully operational and effective product, its integrations with Shortcut are not as rich as those available for Jira. Despite this, LinearB's engineering team has worked very closely with my organization to introduce new features tailored for Shortcut. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has been a game-changer for our team. It's like a superhero tool for software development. It helped us work smarter, not harder and gave us a lot of interesting insights.

Since we started using LinearB, we're getting things done faster. It's easy to see where our projects are at, who's doing what, and what needs attention. No more endless meetings and confusing email chains. Everything's right there in one place.

The best part? LinearB shows us all sorts of numbers that actually make sense. We know how long it takes to get stuff done, where we can improve, and how to use our time better. It's like having a map to navigate the development jungle.

Our whole team loves it. We're more organized, everyone's on the same page, and we're shipping better code. If you're serious about nailing your projects and making your team happier, give LinearB a shot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially, navigating the array of metrics within LinearB can be overwhelming. Thankfully, LinearB's adept Customer Success Managers (CSMs) offer invaluable guidance.

The surplus of metrics can leave one uncertain of where to start or prioritize. Enter LinearB's responsive CSMs, who expertly untangle this complexity. Their advice clarifies which metrics demand attention and which can wait, streamlining our approach.

While the learning curve is steep, LinearB's CSMs make it manageable. Their guidance helps us decipher metric importance and focus effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has been transofmrational for our organization, by increasing efficiency, transparency, and quality in our software delivery processes.

Prior to LinearB adoption, we had challenges with feature delivery predictability. Knowing when a release will hit, gauging the timeframes, and planning accuracy are all crucial to us. With LinearB, our releases have become more like clockwork, with surprises (the undesirable ones, at least) becoming a thing of the past.

LinearB ensures that our end product is nothing short of top-notch. With its comprehensive engineering quality metrics, we've observed a significant improvement in engineering core metrics such as PR sizes, New Code/Refactor/Rework ratios and more. We are also now starting to leverage WorkerB which is a fantastic bot that sends meaningful and purposeful pieces of information to teams and individuals. The information is very contextual and it reduces cognitive load on engineers that is requred as they progress through the development cycles.

LinearB has a really nice UI and it is very easy to use. The dashboards and visualizations provide a clear overview of our projects at a glance via GitHub and Jira integrations, allowing for quick decision-making.

We couldn't be happier with our experience, and most certainly recommend LinearB to any organization looking to elevate their software delivery management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Areas for Improvement:

While LinearB shines in many areas, there are a couple of aspects that could benefit from fine-tuning:

While LinearB works seamlessly with Github and Jira, which are the platforms we use, broader integrations could elevate its value even further. However, we feel like LinearB provides us with all the best industry benchmarks already, and we constatly guided by that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using LinearB presents us with combined insights from multiple data sources that we did not have before. This enables teams to take action, ideally proactively, to improve their ability to create and deliver valuable outcomes for customers. From the moment we started our PoC LinearB helped us identify that which we otherwise would not have known, meaning action could be taken by our teams.

Continuous improvement activities in teams can be directly linked to LinearB metrics with cause-and-effect visible. Hence, improvements that are not yielding positive change can quickly be re-assessed, and those that are yielding benefits sustained and enhanced.

Additionally, any service is only as good as the customer service it provides. This, because rapid resolution of issues, and clarification of uncertainty, is what enables adoption of tooling. LinearB's team is incredibly easy to work with: they are engaged, thoughtful and a breath of fresh air! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Certain features were not available to us initially due to our company's toolset. This was not a fault of LinearB, and we engaged with them to resolve these one-by-one. This shows just how good LinearB's support has been as they've helped shape the tool to our needs.

Not a "dislike" as such, but worth noting : you have to get buy-in from top to bottom in an organisation for a tool like LinearB to bed in and be useful. This, to avoid it becoming management-by-statistics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.