G2

Vishwasa N.

Principal Solutions Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/27/2024

"One of the best platforms to track developer productivity"

4.5/5

What do you like best about DevDynamics?

We started using DevDynamics over a year ago. It helps reduce software cycle time by tracking review time, discussions, and bottlenecks, ensuring smooth processes and balanced workload distribution among team members. DevDynamics also integrates with JIRA, providing real-time project timelines and identifying delays.

The tool offers AI-generated sprint summaries, distinguishing between planned and unplanned tasks, and predicting completion percentages to help manage sprints effectively. Its dashboard integrates data from JIRA and GitHub, offering visual insights into story points and sprint progress.

Using DORA metrics, DevDynamics tracks key indicators like deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and change failure rate, ensuring high-quality releases. Additionally, comprehensive email reports keep project managers updated and aligned with the team’s progress and milestones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DevDynamics?

Currently failure rate is calcuated based on 'Bug' issue type from Jira, which could be inaccurate for some users since some of the bugs age due to lesser business priority.

The onboarding and general user flow could use a little bit of UX revamp so that non technical audiences can get their insights easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DevDynamics solving and how is that benefiting you?

For us, DevDynamics helped to figure out and resolve following issues.

Slow PR Reviews & Review bottlenecks:

We were able to track how long it takes from first commit, to PR and then to Merge and that helped to understand why there can be delays in merging the PR, how long reviewers are taking to review and merge the PRs. It helped us to identify the bottlenecks that were caused by only one person reviewing all PRs. We were able to improve our cycle time by 20% with this tool.

Combining the data between Jira, GitHub and Calendars:

We were able to track an bug/feature request being raised to it's development and to deployment through out the platforms since DevDynamics beings data from Jira and GitHub, it allows us to track actual vs estimated efforts that a bug takes to get resolved.

Detecting Burnout and Effort Distributions:

By tracking commit time and other activities, the platform is able to detect who in the team is working extra hours, overtime and during the weekends which is helping us to early detection of burn out and be able to take action to avoid such burnouts in the team. DevDynamics is also able to give us average working days for each developer in a team to be able to detect team efficiency, bottlenecks and helps us to balance the team strength and weaknesses.

Automated AI Powered Reports:

DevDynamics sends out regular reports generated with the help of gen AI that enables leadership to look at team throughput and quality control. It's sprint reports helped us to find potential inefficiencies and prevent them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.