Practical ideas to help you build better software faster

Just three years into building Inven , Ekku Jokinen’s team secured €11.2 million to scale their AI-powered deal sourcing platform. With data on 21 million companies and 670% year-over-year…

Sometimes people approach using software engineering intelligence tools with the mindset of “just tell me who’s my worst developer.” If it was that simple, I’m sure there would be money to…

Understanding developer experience is vital when you want to improve the work engagement and productivity of the developers within your engineering organization. We’ll cover what developer…

Many software engineering intelligence tools market themselves as “developer-friendly.” It makes sense, because developers are rightfully suspicious about the category. They’ve seen these…

Product discovery in software engineering is half art, half discipline, and an entirely necessary part of building good products. When done well, it solves two problems: building the right…

AI tools for engineering teams are changing fast — really fast. New capabilities drop weekly, and everyone from ICs to engineering leaders to board members are scrambling to figure out what it…

Setting deadlines in software engineering is like scheduling creativity. It doesn’t really work, and pretending it does might end up costing you more than you realize — because deadlines don’t…

Thirty years ago or so, I spent the summer making my university newspaper’s website, previewing it in lynx where there wasn’t much difference between the markup and what I saw on the screen…

Good engineering leaders care deeply about developer productivity, but they’re often unsure about how best to measure it. They worry that any attempt to understand productivity will turn into…

Your engineering team used to ship faster. You know it, your team knows it, and now you’d like to do something about it. And despite the AI coding assistants and automated workflows that…

Congratulations! You’ve just unlocked one of the more mysterious quests in software leadership: figuring out how much of your team’s work can be capitalized. You didn’t ask for this. You…

At Swarmia, we believe every level of the engineering organization deserves real visibility into how they work — from the CTO reporting to the board, to the engineering manager coaching their…