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Balance your engineering investments
Make informed investment decisions by understanding how much time and money you’re spending on different types of engineering work.
Build a healthier, more balanced engineering organization
Leading an engineering organization is a balancing act. Swarmia gives you the visibility to make the right investment decisions every time.
Slice and dice data in different ways
Whether you’d like to see how much time teams have spent on roadmap work vs. bugs, planned work vs. unplanned work, or initiative A vs. initiative B, Swarmia can give you the answer in seconds.
Create multiple investment breakdowns to look at the same data through different lenses.
Create multiple investment breakdowns to look at the same data through different lenses.
Quickly spot worrying trends
If you feel like your team is spending too much time on keeping the lights on, you’re probably right.
Swarmia gives you the data you need to start critical conversations in the organization — whether that’s about reducing technical debt or investing in improving the test suite.
Swarmia gives you the data you need to start critical conversations in the organization — whether that’s about reducing technical debt or investing in improving the test suite.
Understand the real cost of engineering work
Add the average fully loaded cost per engineer to Swarmia to see how much money each epic or initiative has cost you over a period of time.
This additional visibility can help you prioritize the right projects and types of work.
This additional visibility can help you prioritize the right projects and types of work.
“Investment balance is something we check regularly. We want to spend 75-80% of our time on roadmap work, and with Swarmia, we know we’re there.”
Frederic Calvez
Director of Product & Engineering Operations at Smartly
Get immediate visibility into engineering investments
Zoom in and out
Look at the whole organization at once or drill down to see an individual team.
Start important conversations
Back up your hunches with real data and use it to justify necessary investments.
Let AI categorize work for you
Get to 0% uncategorized work with automatic categorization.
Works with the tools you already use
Swarmia combines data from your codebase and issue tracker. It also integrates with chat to speed up developer workflows.
“Like many other tech companies, we now operate with more constraints. We need to make engineering really count and choose what we invest in more carefully. Swarmia gives us visibility into where teams are spending their time and whether they’re struggling somehow.”
Luca Martinetti
CTO at TrueLayer
Start balancing your engineering investments today.