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Teams need visibility into their ways of working to make better decisions. Use proven actionable insights to unblock the flow, align engineering with business objectives, and drive continuous improvement.
Unblock the Flow
Identify and remove blockers
Insight starts with transparency. Gain visibility into your engineering pipeline with actionable insights on flow & velocity, CI/CD practices, code quality and many other.
Know where the time goes
Boost focus on business objectives
Up to 60% of all work doesn’t get reflected on the roadmap. Swarmia shows the effect of unplanned work, bugs, scope creep, and technical debt on your plans and helps teams to regain focus on key initiatives.
Build better habits
Drive continuous improvement
Best teams improve all the time. Build new team habits by adopting and measuring working agreements followed by the industry’s best-performing teams.
Is Swarmia for you? We've seen teams getting real results with this tool. But every team is different.
Enabling teams to do their best work
Every team is different
There’s no single right way to build software. We adapt to your team's tools, rituals and challenges.
No harmful metrics
Best teams focus on team performance, not individual performance. Swarmia is not a tool for stalking developers.
Continuous improvement
Best teams improve all the time. Our tools are build to have a long-lasting impact on team productivity.
Quality enables speed
Its not all about cycle time. You can reach 10x velocity without compromising on product quality or team health.
Data quality is a feature
Getting accurate historical data across tools is hard. Our automation ensures all work is assigned to the right issues and the right people.
Security matters
Industry best security practices are in our DNA. We also conduct internal and external security audits every six months.
Works with tools you already use
Swarmia integrates with data from GitHub, Jira, Linear and Slack.
Don't see your tool? We are always working on adding new integrations.
Best teams get better all the time. Join the 600+ teams using Swarmia today.
Frequently asked questions
How does it work?
Swarmia connects with GitHub, Jira and other systems to provide engineering organizations with a holistic picture of how they work and where they can improve.
Based on this data and our research on industry’s best-performing teams, engineering teams identify anti-patterns and blockers, and agree on improvement areas.
Swarmia integrates with team routines and sends automated notifications based on team goals to build feedback loops and drive long-term productivity improvements in the following areas:
- Focus. Limiting work in progress, visualizing unplanned work and aligning work with top business objectives.
- Delivery. Shipping in small batches, improving review and cycle time, measuring scope creep.
- Quality. Improving code review practices, addressing bugs and technical debt, handling automated test flakiness.
- Collaboration. Breaking knowledge silos, unblocking cross-team work.
Who is Swarmia for?
Swarmia is used by Engineering Leaders, Product Leaders and Engineering Managers, while providing context and saving time for individual developers.
- Engineering Leaders get high-level visibility across the organization.
- Product Leaders look beyond Jira reports to diagnose flow issues, follow progress on strategic initiatives, and make sure the teams are focused on work that matters.
- Engineers use actionable alerts to get pull requests through 70% faster, improve code quality and review process. They also use Swarmia in team retrospectives.
We've seen tools that focus on measuring individual productivity, but that doesn't result in long-term productivity improvement, and creates distrust between leadership and engineering teams. We create a shared language for the entire organization, providing engineering teams with data to improve their own work. In Swarmia everyone gets to see the same insights - CTOs have the same access as engineering interns.
We don’t have a team size requirement. Engineering organizations of our customers range from 20 to several 100s of developers.
How long does the setup take?
It takes less than 10 minutes for initial setup. You’ll get first insights immediately. Teams can be onboarded later at any time, it takes a couple of minutes per team to put things in place.
How long does it take to get results?
Many common team blockers can be identified and removed within two weeks. We’ve seen teams achieving a sharp productivity increase in 4–6 weeks. Long-lasting improvement requires commitment from both leadership and teams.
Do you offer a free trial?
When you sign up, you get a snapshot of your team health based on your data for free. Once we proceed with onboarding, Swarmia's pricing is based on the number of developers in your organization, and there's a 60-day money-back guarantee.
If you're a startup with less than 25 developers, contact us for a special offer.
How do you handle data?
Keeping your data secure is our top priority. We don’t store source code files and use only metadata about your organization, repositories and issue tracker data to run analysis on our side. We’re open to a security review to make Swarmia work for your organization.
Additionally, we run internal and external security audits twice a year.
Read more about our commitment to data security.
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Visibility
Teams need transparency to improve their ways of working. Gain an accurate view of where your team's time is spent, and boost focus on work that matters.