Case Study: How Productsup uses Swarmia to support team leads and speed up software delivery
Key results
The challenge
As Productsup grew and shifted from Kanban to Scrum, SVP of Engineering Roland Fiala lost the clear overview he once had of the organization's work. He also needed tooling to set new and existing team leads up for success with transparency into their teams.
The solution
After comparing Swarmia and LinearB, Productsup chose Swarmia and rolled it out gradually. Team leads used self-configurable working agreements and Swarmia insights to run retrospectives and weekly check-ins and to proactively identify and remove blockers.
“Swarmia gives us the perfect overview of engineering productivity. From the insights page, I can quickly see how we're doing in terms of cycle time and pull requests, which helps me report back to the business.”
RFRoland FialaSVP of Engineering at Productsup
The results, in context
Within four weeks, one team cut cycle time by 69% and increased throughput by 51%, with review time down 38%. Leaders reported the tool gave them a clear overview of engineering productivity to report back to the business.