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.

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.

linearb focus is on empowering teams to improve by making their bottlenecks more visible and measurable. while it's not a super opinionanted tool, it makes it easier to follow Lean principles, and accelerate on continuous delivery (eg. using DORA metrics, and go deeper from there), which is among the few engineering north starts with science behind it. we tried for a long time to use tools that were more focused on reporting resource utilization and budgetting, that checked some boxes but weren't really driving a culture of continuous improvement. linearb clicked almost immediately with engineers and EMs, including some aha! moments right on onboarding.