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You don’t need to summon the spirits to make sense of your engineering org

Both a séance and Swarmia promise to reveal what’s really happening with your cross-team initiatives. One of them delivers.
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Step into the light

Engineering work is often spread across tools, teams, and threads, making it difficult to see which initiatives are chugging along nicely and which ones need help getting unstuck.

Some engineering leaders have tried less conventional approaches to improving visibility — gathering in a darkened room, lighting candles, attempting to contact entities with knowledge of current roadmap health.

The spirits, it turns out, are not great at Gantt charts. And wearing a druid’s robe will unfortunately get you no closer to unblocking cross-team dependencies.

But there’s a better way to understand what’s happening in your engineering organization. And it works even when the lights are on.

A detailed comparison

Here’s all you need to know when you’re deciding between organizing a séance and investing in Swarmia, the engineering intelligence platform you can trust.

Change target:
A séance
A séance
Swarmia
Visibility across teams
Limited. Spirits tend to speak in riddles.
A single view of every team’s work, updated in real-time.
Early warning signals
Candle flickering, ambiguous at best.
You’ll see immediately when initiatives are at risk, before they become a problem.
Dependency tracking
Not supported.
See exactly where cross-team dependencies sit and where the bottlenecks are.
Initiative progress breakdown
By vibes, mostly.
Actual progress data by team, initiative, effort, and time period.
Root cause analysis
Séance participants may speculate. Brian will exonerate himself, every time.
Drill into the data to understand where and when things started going wrong.
Slack disruptions
Frequent. Unavoidable.
Slack and Teams notifications that surface the right information at the right time.
Requires a druid’s robe
Strongly recommended.
No. Unless you’re into that kind of thing.
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“What I like about Swarmia is that all you have to do is connect it to your existing tools and then you get a whole bunch of information — without having to change your process or go through hours of consulting to make sure that the labels on the tickets are just right.”

Egan Royal, SVP Engineering at Engine

Egan Royal

SVP Engineering
Engine

Egan Royal, SVP Engineering at Engine

“What I like about Swarmia is that all you have to do is connect it to your existing tools and then you get a whole bunch of information — without having to change your process or go through hours of consulting to make sure that the labels on the tickets are just right.”

Egan Royal

SVP Engineering
Engine

Swarmia is a better way to stay on top of your cross-team initiatives

Swarmia gives you a reliable view of how cross-team initiatives are progressing — without having to ask every team how things are going and hope they tell you. You can see where work is happening, where it isn’t, and where dependencies are becoming blockers.
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He means well, but his methods range from slightly eccentric to seriously unhinged.
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There’s a better way to run your engineering organization

It’s called Swarmia, and we’d love to show you around.

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