Swarmia Reviews & Product Details

Simple to use and give you a great overview of your engineering teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can't list a downside at the moment, I have been having a great experience so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've been using Swarmia for a few months now on a weekly basis, and it has truly transformed the way my team and I manage our KPIs and leverage data. Swarmia offers a fantastic product that integrates seamlessly into our workflow and you can easily implement your reports on it, providing real-time insights and actionable metrics that have been instrumental in driving our performance.

One of the standout features of Swarmia is its ability to present complex data in a user-friendly format. This has allowed us to easily track our progress, identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing so far, there support is very helpful. I highly recommend Swarmia to any team looking to elevate their performance and achieve better outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup is very simple -- it integrates well with Github and configuration is very straightforward. New features like initiative tracking are also really nice, though I'd like to see some UX improvements and deeper Jira integration (it would be nice to have bi-directional syncing). I also really appreciate the full-featured free tier for small startups (like mine). The cost structure makes sense and we'd be willing to pay as we reach a larger scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product occassionally returns stale results. In addition, there is a lot of jira bookkeeping I need to do to make sure that work is categorized appropriately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swarmia is combining information from your backlog tooling and your code repository. I our case it's Jira in combination with GitHub.

In Swarmia you can get more insight in the progress made by the team during the sprint without any additional handlings by the developers and you can identify possible blockers earlier.

When you only use Jira, then you can only see a status and pick up signals from your developers during the daily scrum ceremony. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The risk of a tool like Swarmia is that management puts KPIs on figures where I see more value in using the figures to detect potentional issues and start the conversation with your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The "Work log" and "Pulls requests" parts are very useful and contains a lot a of details

My team an I use a lot the swarmia slackbot to be informed about the PR status Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some filters like the possibility to choose between weekly, bi-weekly, monthly for example in work log part.

The pull requests analysis are not so easy to deal with, and for "time to first review" I want to have the possibility to exclude a reviewer (cause we use a bot to do a first review and that distorts the stats) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We were looking for a way for our development team to receive notifications about Github pull requests in Slack. Swarmia does this and much more.

I like the insights into the time the development team spends on different types of issues, such as bug fixing, new development, and productivity. I also enjoyed the insights into the turnaround time for our pull requests and tasks.

We use this daily, and it is super easy to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To fully benefit from all the features, you need to ensure that all users set up all the individual integrations with Slack, GitHub, etc. To be honest, this is actually not very difficult, so not much of a dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swarmia makes it simple to gather engineering metrics in one plac; this gives great visibility to the engineering team and helps them understand and analyse their performance, allowing them to define ways to improve. Without Swarmia, achieving the same would require a lot of manual effort and spreadsheets. Additionally, it provides a nice UX and UI and great integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the moment, it only supports a few integrations, mainly Jira and Github. This means that certain metrics are not following industry standards, for example DORA. Adding integrations with CI/CD tools, e.g. CircleCI, and Incident Management tools, e.g. PagerDuty, Incident.io, OpsGenie, would create a much better and more complete picture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Of the things I like the most apart from its ease of use, is the ability to integrate with other tools. Sometimes I forget to check how things are going with my team, Slack sends me a notification with a detailed summary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Perhaps this may be related to my management as a leader and not directly with Swarmia, and it's that by telling the team that we would use Swarmia, it generated stress among the developers because they thought they would now be measured line by line of code. But after many meetings, we reached a point where we understood the use of Swarmia as a tool to be more efficient and focus efforts in the most appropriate way, even seeing aspects of our workflow that are invisible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The navigation experience is wonderful. It can be easily integrated with Slack and GitHub. The notifications emitted by Swarmia are pretty cool as well, specially those that let you know that a peer requested a review from you(The digest is also great).

I mainly used as a companion for my retrospectives and it felt great to seek opportunities for improvement as a team while observing those metrics.

Overall, Swarmia is handy, easy to implement and an accurate source of team metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well, there were two things that threw me off a tiny bit. The customer support is okay, but kind of delayed(perhaps due to the plan I was on, which I guess makes sense).

The other one has to do with commit squashing. It's not a feature that they support and by the time I realized we had already started running a Squashing strategy for our pull requests, which ended up harming the cycle time calculation(more exactly the WIP portion). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Working Agreements feature is great. It sends out a daily digest giving us insights into how disciplined we are as an engineering team and it's very helpful during dev retros. Also their PR tracking combined with DORA metrics is well built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't think of anything. It's been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.