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Improve the business impact of engineering
Get a clear picture of where teams are spending their time and strike the right balance between different types of engineering work.
Build a healthier, more balanced engineering organization
Leading an engineering organization is a balancing act. Your goal is to intentionally manage the investment between building new things, reducing technical debt, improving productivity, and more.
Read our guide to balancing engineering investment→Zoom in and out
Analyze investment distribution by organization, group, or team.
Create multiple sets of categories
Slice and dice work based on initiatives, capitalizable projects, and more.
Translate work into dollars
Understand how much money your business is spending on different projects.
Investment balance is something we check monthly. 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
Improve balance on every level of the organization
Identify teams that need support. Help individuals understand where their time goes, without stalking or stack ranking them.
Support and coach individuals
Have high quality 1:1s and career discussions based on real insights.
Get maintenance under control
Identify time-consuming patterns in technical debt, firefighting, and chores.
Auto-categorize work in minutes
Set up investment categories in a few clicks. Swarmia will take care of the rest.
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.
We recommend that all teams look into their investment balance. It helps us answer questions like, are we pushing hard enough on new products or improving existing products? Do we see patterns where keeping the lights on work is becoming an excessive capacity requirement to a team?
Walter de Bruijn
Head of Engineering Productivity at Miro
Start balancing your engineering investments.