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Swarmia Product Details

Swarmia is a software engineering intelligence platform for modern organizations. By combining data from GitHub and Jira/Linear, it gives engineering leaders, managers, and teams the visibility they need to continuously improve across three areas: 1. Business outcomes: are we focusing on the right things and making progress on our strategic initiatives? 2. Developer productivity: what's getting in the way of shipping high-quality software faster? 3. Developer experience: do we have all the tools and support we need to feel good about working here? Swarmia combines research-backed engineering metrics (including DORA and SPACE), developer experience surveys, and Slack notifications to give modern organizations everything they need to ship better software faster.

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Product Description

Swarmia is an engineering productivity platform that gives engineering leaders, managers, and teams the insights they need to see what’s slowing them down and the tools to resolve those blockers. It connects with the platforms your engineering teams are already using: source code hosting, issue tracker, and chat. With Swarmia, you can measure key engineering metrics (like DORA, SPACE, and more) and use use those insights to make gradual changes across productivity, collaboration, and workflow.

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Pinja Dodik

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

1 month

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Swarmia Demo - Stay on top of cross-team engineering initiatives

See the status of different projects at a glance and spot at-risk work so you can help get it back on track before it's too late.

Swarmia Demo - Balance engineering investment

Split engineering work into customizable categories to identify areas that require more investment, and easily create software cost capitalization reports.

Swarmia Demo - Identify teamwork anti-patterns and unblock the flow

Visualize the work of engineering teams to quickly spot and eliminate bottlenecks.

Swarmia Demo - Achieve inbox zero for all your pull requests

Give software engineers a single list view of all open pull requests across repositories. This way, you'll never let PRs fall through the cracks again.

Swarmia Demo - Run developer experience surveys

Use Swarmia's purpose-built 32-question survey framework to run developer experience surveys. Automatically complement the survey findings with system metrics in Swarmia.

Swarmia Demo - Automate feedback loops in Slack

Get personal and team notifications in Slack to stay on top of ongoing work, speed up code reviews, catch failed CI checks, and more.

Swarmia is the engineering effectiveness platform for modern software organizations.

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AP

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/20/2024

"Easy Setup, Useful Metrics and Great Support"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

Swarmia setup with straightforward as it integates with our tools out of the box. I liked the support of DORA Metrics and the different options avaibale to feed the deployment and incident data to Swarmia. Other features I like are Investment Balance and Work Agreements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

Few things can be improved but nothing major I can think of now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2024

"Great github integration for slack"

5/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

The slack integration to know when someone approve/review/comment my Pull Requests on Github is awesome.

Also the view with PR Throughput is great to know how fast we merge and how long a PR stays open, to easily find bottlenecks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

The UI is hard to navigate. The sidebar horrible. I honnestly almost never go to the dashboard.

Data is only given as average, while a p50 / p90 / p95 / p99 would be wayyyy more useful to review PR merge time, as there are often 1 or 2 outsider PRs that take ages to merge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/7/2024

"Really useful to track the progress of my projects"

4/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

I really like the developer overview, it alows me to have a great overview of what i've accomplished during the previous weeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

I can sometime be hard to understand how to use the app or the differents graphs and what they mean, even though when you get it they are quite helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/23/2024

"Useful product for tracking Github PRs"

4/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

PR/Contribution metrics dsahboard for across all organisation repos. Slack integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

Autoclosing Pull Request based on the number of days it has sent Slack messages for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MJ

Matt J.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/4/2024

"Very impressed so far with how simple and useful swarmia has been"

4/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

The integration with slack + github, which keeps the team up-to-date with any new PRs and the review status of them makes keeping track of them so much easier. Also, the overall statistics we get about the team give us metrics that help us get a view of the health of our engineering team. It also required very little in terms of setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

ideally, more if it would be configurable via an API, that way we could administer it using Infra-as-code tools in the same way as other products we use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GS

Greg S.

Head of Software Platforms Terawatt Infrastructure.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/20/2023

"Swarmia is the engineering metrics platform that you always wanted but could not find"

5/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

- Simple to setup. Connect your issue tracker, your source control and let the magic happen

- No need to change your agile process

- Data is collected and available within minutes

- Combo of DORA and SAFE metrics in 1 platform

- The team loves the Slack integration - especially PR reminders

- Support resolves issues in 24 hours

- So many insights and the UX is easy for entire team to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

- I wish they had a direct integration into CircleCI for releases. We were able to work around it by using the API. But it took extra work

- For the stage and size of company, Swarmia is perfect. I could see a really large team needed more complex functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/30/2023

"Single pane of glass for your engineering team"

4/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

I like that I am able to view the activity across our team to find out where work is being blocked and where untracked work comes from. The pull request tab allows a quick look into active work that may need attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

I dislike that I can only split metrics based on individuals in teams rather than by repositories. Each codebase comes with a different flavour of process so performance of a team can vary depending on the system they are working on currently. Being able to see metrics based on repository would help identify system improvements more easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Swarmia helps to uncover the activity across our engineering organisation so we can track the performance of our teams and processes, ideally identifying blockers before they become an issue in our development pipeline and uncovering untracked work that might be getting more or less attention than it deserves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UE

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/4/2024

"Swarmia experience"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

It's good tool to track the metrics suck as github pr, deployments, jira and slack updates. we can classify by teams or groups or individuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

By default deployment configurations is taken automatically only using github actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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♟️Andreas F.

Chief Technology Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/5/2024

"Really good user experience the insights this tool gives on our developer performance is incredible"

5/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

Really easy to set up, integrations with JIRA and Github out of the box. We are using it extensively and it's already part of our daily routine. The out of the box experience is enough for our use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

I do not have any complaints / bad experiences with the product so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EM

Emmy M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/14/2024

"Director of Program Management"

4/5

What do you like best about Swarmia?

Being able to leverage Jira & Github connection to power our engineering team insights is huge. It provides more data points that allow for more objective decision making. As a program manager, the new feature Organization - Initiatives helps provide a quick overview and stats on which initiative I may need to focus more time. Customer support is also very quick to respond and helpful in adding enhancements! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Swarmia?

There are certain pages where there may be too much load on querying the data, the page crashes. This primarily happens when I'm on the worklog section and switching between teams and issue types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In the program management department, I need to leverage stats to provide a data-driven QBR on our R&D efforts. For example providing the breakdown of investment categories allow me to share areas we may need to decrease or increase our allocation (eg. spending too much time on KTLO, less on Innovation/Enhancements). Looking back to an initiative and seeing which story took longer within the epic and comparing that to the story point estimates can help plan similar initiatives more accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.