LinearB Reviews & Product Details

One of the best monitoring tools I've found for keeping tabs on a project's progress is LinearB. The Dashboard view of the CI/CD deployments is the best feature. We can integrate the tool with the Jira/ADO board to track the status of deployments. Connecting to the Git stream to track pipeline execution, repository changes, and review status is the most crucial step.

Really appreciate the customer service team for answering all questions and for setting up demo sessions as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No comments as such. Will come up with any queries in the near feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB is designed with a user-first approach, ensuring that every feature is intuitive and easy to navigate. From day one, you find yourself effortlessly harnessing the platform's power, streamlining your workflow without any hassle.

LinearB provides a dedicated success manager, someone who's not just there to answer your questions but to deeply understand your unique needs. The success manager works closely with you to tailor the platform's functionalities to your project, ensuring you get the most out of every feature.

One of the most frustrating aspects of the previous solution we were using was the uncertainty surrounding data accuracy. With LinearB, you can put those worries to rest. The data is accurate, and not processed by any proprietary ML model that makes backtracking data impossible.

Also, the solution just works as designed - which is not that obvious. With data coming from multiple streams and platforms it's essential that there are no disconnections or lost data.

Moreover, they are constantly adding new features offering early access to those.

Finally, their support is super responsive and competent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing I can complain about as of now, I'd like to see tools for SPACE framework like integration with calendars for FLOW tracking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has several standout features that truly enhance our workflow. One of the most valuable aspects is its remarkable visibility into teams and groups, which allows us to quickly identify what is working well, and what needs our attention. With full support for standards like DORA and the inclusion of benchmarks, LinearB offers a clear picture of how our teams are progressing, making it an ideal tool for effective communication between engineering managers and stakeholders. Our teams enjoy using LinearB to improve their processes and increase their overall performance. Having objective measures that help drive data-driven decisions, means our teams are always experimenting with ways to improve their impact. The constant addition of new features, such as the Projects view and Grouping, showcases LinearB’s dedication to staying innovative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Despite its strengths, LinearB does have some areas that could be improved. Its detailed nature can sometimes make upward management challenging. I’d appreciate a streamlined scorecard-type reports that include benchmarks for easier summary reporting to senior leadership. Additionally, the initial configuration that compared individual performance within teams posed challenges during the tool rollout. However, LinearB’s quick response in offering the option to disable this view showed their attentiveness to user feedback. One potential area for growth is actionable insights; introducing contextual guiding insights, as some competitors do, could significantly enhance the platform’s utility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have been using LinearB for almost a year. LinearB is a robust tool for those who want to keep improving their development process. By robust, I mean anything and everything that can be counted, measured, and tracked is available for teams to review from Jira and Git.

We started with Panning Accuracy and had immediate improvements made with how teams worked their sprints. I had been tracking metrics for years using a spreadsheet, but LinearB has all the metrics already visible. The trends for specific numbers is also visible which makes it easier to identify areas to focus.

The metrics from Git allow the teams to really understand best practices and can track their improvements. The details from Git are easy to understand with plenty of insight at the detail level. There are tools too to help with Git: WorkerB which controls individual developer notifications and Team Goals which includes a dashboard with editable metrics letting the team identify their focus.

Saves time, provides great insight. What else could you want?

PS. Managers love it too and can get insight at a high level for how their teams are performing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With any tool, set-up is required. This can be difficult initially. LinearB does have settings which allow for quick set-up and then refining as needed, per team. But since these settings are per team, training needs can be time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall it's an easy-to-use tool that focuses on the metrics that engineering teams already care about. The focus on DORA and other supporting metrics made it easy to get teams to buy into the "why" we were using this tool and the easy onboarding and interface made it simple for teams to start looking for areas of improvement. When you combine this with a great customer success team that helped to train our teams we were able to start to see results quickly.

As we focus on small empowered development teams giving them the tooling and visibility of if they are achieving fast flow, and if not helping them find the bottlenecks and areas of improvement has been incredibly valuable. Just by giving our teams this visibility, we reduced cycle times significantly within the first 90 days.

From an executive perspective, the aggregations available to measure overall team performance and health has been valuable to ensure leadership focuses on the right things and not just the things making the most noise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After initial setup manual team management (leavers, joiners, changes) can be a challenge, especially if you're operating with small teams or teams empowered to restructure freely to achieve objectives. They've made progress with Github teams integration which we've yet to explore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that LinearB uses the already available information from our use of GitHub and Jira to produce metrics without any manual intervention. Instead of spending time manually putting different metrics together in a spreadsheet to understand how engineering teams are doing, I can focus my time in digesting these metrics to identify opporuntity areas and come up with a plan to make our teams run more efficiently.

One of my most used features is Projects to understand how well our teams are planning their sprints and how much work are we adding into the sprint. While this information is avilable through sprint reports in Jira, it's very hard to consume there. LinearB does a great job at displaying this information in a very user friendly manner and is highly customizable to pull data by team, bord, epic, etc.

LinearB is also constantly releasing out new features and their support team is great to work with. Always responding very quickly and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to see a bit more of harmonization across the different metrics available in the tool. While the metrics themselves are good and insightful, some of them are available to display by sprint, others by week. It would be good to be able to see things under the same lens when looking at teams metrics without having to manually use a custom date picker to replicate the sprint duration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB is remarkably user-friendly and straightforward to set up, ensuring a seamless integration into existing workflows. It empowers stakeholders with the ability to access and review insightful data for individual teams, entire projects, or even broader departmental trends. The impact of LinearB on our organization has been profound, enriching our retrospective discussions with actionable talking points and driving a culture of continuous improvement across the board. The software's data-backed insights eliminate the guesswork previously associated with pinpointing areas for improvement, offering clear direction for teams to focus their efforts.

Our engineers have particularly enjoyed the WorkerB Slackbot. Notably, the review pickup time has shown a plummetted, resulting in enhanced efficiency without blowing up Slack with unnecessary noise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While LinearB stands as a fully operational and effective product, its integrations with Shortcut are not as rich as those available for Jira. Despite this, LinearB's engineering team has worked very closely with my organization to introduce new features tailored for Shortcut. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has been a game-changer for our team. It's like a superhero tool for software development. It helped us work smarter, not harder and gave us a lot of interesting insights.

Since we started using LinearB, we're getting things done faster. It's easy to see where our projects are at, who's doing what, and what needs attention. No more endless meetings and confusing email chains. Everything's right there in one place.

The best part? LinearB shows us all sorts of numbers that actually make sense. We know how long it takes to get stuff done, where we can improve, and how to use our time better. It's like having a map to navigate the development jungle.

Our whole team loves it. We're more organized, everyone's on the same page, and we're shipping better code. If you're serious about nailing your projects and making your team happier, give LinearB a shot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Initially, navigating the array of metrics within LinearB can be overwhelming. Thankfully, LinearB's adept Customer Success Managers (CSMs) offer invaluable guidance.

The surplus of metrics can leave one uncertain of where to start or prioritize. Enter LinearB's responsive CSMs, who expertly untangle this complexity. Their advice clarifies which metrics demand attention and which can wait, streamlining our approach.

While the learning curve is steep, LinearB's CSMs make it manageable. Their guidance helps us decipher metric importance and focus effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has been transofmrational for our organization, by increasing efficiency, transparency, and quality in our software delivery processes.

Prior to LinearB adoption, we had challenges with feature delivery predictability. Knowing when a release will hit, gauging the timeframes, and planning accuracy are all crucial to us. With LinearB, our releases have become more like clockwork, with surprises (the undesirable ones, at least) becoming a thing of the past.

LinearB ensures that our end product is nothing short of top-notch. With its comprehensive engineering quality metrics, we've observed a significant improvement in engineering core metrics such as PR sizes, New Code/Refactor/Rework ratios and more. We are also now starting to leverage WorkerB which is a fantastic bot that sends meaningful and purposeful pieces of information to teams and individuals. The information is very contextual and it reduces cognitive load on engineers that is requred as they progress through the development cycles.

LinearB has a really nice UI and it is very easy to use. The dashboards and visualizations provide a clear overview of our projects at a glance via GitHub and Jira integrations, allowing for quick decision-making.

We couldn't be happier with our experience, and most certainly recommend LinearB to any organization looking to elevate their software delivery management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Areas for Improvement:

While LinearB shines in many areas, there are a couple of aspects that could benefit from fine-tuning:

While LinearB works seamlessly with Github and Jira, which are the platforms we use, broader integrations could elevate its value even further. However, we feel like LinearB provides us with all the best industry benchmarks already, and we constatly guided by that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using LinearB presents us with combined insights from multiple data sources that we did not have before. This enables teams to take action, ideally proactively, to improve their ability to create and deliver valuable outcomes for customers. From the moment we started our PoC LinearB helped us identify that which we otherwise would not have known, meaning action could be taken by our teams.

Continuous improvement activities in teams can be directly linked to LinearB metrics with cause-and-effect visible. Hence, improvements that are not yielding positive change can quickly be re-assessed, and those that are yielding benefits sustained and enhanced.

Additionally, any service is only as good as the customer service it provides. This, because rapid resolution of issues, and clarification of uncertainty, is what enables adoption of tooling. LinearB's team is incredibly easy to work with: they are engaged, thoughtful and a breath of fresh air! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Certain features were not available to us initially due to our company's toolset. This was not a fault of LinearB, and we engaged with them to resolve these one-by-one. This shows just how good LinearB's support has been as they've helped shape the tool to our needs.

Not a "dislike" as such, but worth noting : you have to get buy-in from top to bottom in an organisation for a tool like LinearB to bed in and be useful. This, to avoid it becoming management-by-statistics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I have a tool that shows me allocations and key metrics without needing to compute by hand. LinearB has allowed me to focus on key metrics like the DORA metrics to understand how my team is doing. I've also been able to accurately figure out where we're spending our time from a resource allocation perspective.

Prior to signing up with LinearB I spent a lot of time and energy trying to calculate this information with spreadsheets and manually updating data from our ticketing system. The integrations between our code repository and ticketing system makes those calculations happen automatically. This is allowing us to work cross-functionally within my organization to make sure we focus on the right thing.

The ability to drive a software team with accurate DORA metrics contributes to changing the culture in our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not sure there's much to put here that's not super nitpicky. It would be amazing if the data refreshed instantaneously when I make team or configuration changes. With the amount of data we generate I can't fault the system for taking a few minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has given our business critical telemetry and attribution for our engineering teams. In the past 6 months the wins enabled by the tool include the following.

1. 90% reduction in time to release resulting in a massive reduction in cycle time for our organization.

2. Cycle time for teams has been reduced by 66% from an average of 6 days to deliver value when we started using LinearB to an average of 2 days now.

3. Team planning accuracy has been very useful for retros to speak with the product manager and engineering manager.

As we have improved our pracitce around planning our ability to hit delivery dates has improved significantly. Prior to having LinearB we were constantly experiencing rollover work and pushed deadlines due to poor practices around planning. While we are still very much in the process of tackling this problem, and LinearB gives us the visiblity we need to manage the improvement. In the past 6 months we have gone from an org avererage of ~50% and have improved to around 70% today. The result is immideate and is allowing us to better time when major feature work will ship and coordinate the business as a whole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the product has progressed signficantly in the past year I am still very excited for more granular analytics views where I can more easily switch between mean and average values at a per-team level. It's not a significant issue, but it's something that will be nice to have when they implement this feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB integrates with out git repositories and Jira and give us, in BigID, a full picture of the work that is done.

Jira can present some KPIs, but in LinearB it's integrated with git and shown in a friendly way to the users.

Some of our most viewed features in LinearB are:

Cycle time - help identify bottle necks

Work breakdown - helps us see what % of refactor was done and if additional testing is needed or perhaps a retro to why this happened

High interaction MRs

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Projects: Planning & Capacity accuracy. This helps the teams plan better, understand better the work with Jira and adds motivation when they see the accuracy rise :)

Also, we get from time to time a report that shows how the work is distributed over the week and over the day, which is very insightful.

The support team are great. Always quick to respond and very helpful.

And the team of CSMs that we work with are the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is designed to Saas products, which is great.

But it would be great if the cycle time could have been configurable (i.e. remove the Deploy part in our case). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I tested and compared numerous other tools such as Haystack, WayDev, etc, and by far, LinearB was the best one as it combines all the required metrics in a nice tool to use every day. In addition, their engineering and support team is top-notch and friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As I work in a tech consultancy, we need to manage multiple instances of LinearB. While multiple organization features work, it is not that smooth and introduces some frictiosn. These are not deal breakers but it could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB offers several positive features that can greatly benefit development teams and projects. More than a KPI tracking tool, it really helps in building better coding practices and culture.

It can be a great help in coaching and growing the skills of your Team Leads, as it is simple to use and customize.

On top of that, you can clearly see that they are working a lot on the product, and listen to their customers. They release useful new features every quarter, if not every month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it tries to provide single pan of glass from the developer level up to the C level, it doesn't quite achieve this goal yet.

I can see it could greatly benefit on the developer eduction side and on the C level reporting. Hopefully will come soon! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB enables you to collect information from your source control system and task management tool and visualize the data. It helps an engineering manager to understand where his org can improve, what metrics he should focus on and take actions to improve them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB provides a lot of dashboards and metrics, and you can customize them. I was missing the ability to push information to managers / team leads, through a weekly email or slack message. Adding this would make it easier to get people's focus on the metrics that are important, and act to change and improve them, faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB provides great information to engineering leaders for understanding objectively how their teams are performing and how to improve it. I think it does a great job at presenting the information and provides also good tools for leaders to take action on that data. I also like a lot the Dev Interrupted community and the Interact events, I think they are a great complement to LinearB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd love to see industry benchmarks in more metrics. Also I think it would be great to have better tools to take action on metrics, and the possibility to have goals set on any metric. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One standout aspect of LinearB is their exceptional customer support. Whenever we encountered a challenge their team is quick to respond and assist. They offer a regular stream of new product features and are happy to take user feedback into consideration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

New features often feel rushed into production, leading to usability issues that have required feedback/iterations before they became fully functional for our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The largest benefit is seeing how the code flows through your system from start to finish. The quick and easy insights LinearB provides fosters great discussions within teams on what impacts their ability to get code deployed. Many of our teams have found the work that happens outside of coding in the largest hindrence to productivity, not writing the code itself. Also, this has fostered discussions on how best the team wants to work together to balance focus time with collaboration time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB is working on building out better enterprise like features. Working with a larger engineering organization some parts are a bit difficult to manage. The team is very receptive to feedback though and I'm looking forward to the improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB is a great tool to link Github (or Git) activity with a ticketing system, and get an overview of what's happening from a code perspective when you have lots of repos and teams. The automation with WorkerB saves a lot of engineering time and smooths out a lot of manual work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish the Shortcut integration was as good as the Jira integration. We don't use Jira, and would like to see the rich project management tracking. But LinearB is one of the only tools that supports Shortcut so it's still worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB is rich with data and insights while managing to avoid the massive and bewildering dump of data that some competing products deliver. We have easily and quickly been able to use LinearB to find areas of focus in our operations, drive improvements, and see real-time results in LinearB. We've had questions and Support responds lightning fast. We have also found a couple defects -- we're a software company too, we get it, there's no such thing as defect-free software. Support landed on them like marines on the beach. One was fixed literally one hour after we reported it. The other was a little more complicated, and we saw it rapidly escalated for focused attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few minor features we wish for that remain in their backlog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB makes the engineering processes and flows visible by exposing a large number of engineering metrics. It helps me as the VP R&D to have educated discussions with my direct reports and with my CEO. I can identify bottlenecks quickly, measure the team efficiency and the developer experience and improve based on data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In general I like LinearB, there are cases where it is not clear how the calculation are made and it require me to invest more time, especially in the integration phase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

linearb focus is on empowering teams to improve by making their bottlenecks more visible and measurable.

while it's not a super opinionanted tool, it makes it easier to follow Lean principles, and accelerate on continuous delivery (eg. using DORA metrics, and go deeper from there), which is among the few engineering north starts with science behind it.

we tried for a long time to use tools that were more focused on reporting resource utilization and budgetting, that checked some boxes but weren't really driving a culture of continuous improvement.

linearb clicked almost immediately with engineers and EMs, including some aha! moments right on onboarding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

overall a great experience, I think deeper integrations to complete the workflow of continuous improvement would make sense and they seem to be investing in that direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB has been great for the teams at Flipdish. LinearB is integrated with our Github and JIRA accounts allowing teams to benchmark themselves against other Engineering teams in the market. These delivery metrics have a cascading impact on improving business outcomes while the teams focus on solving the correct problems. LinearB helps pinpoint areas of flow that can be enhanced and trends the result of their improvement exercises, dramatically boosting team morale and engagement.

Setting up teams with LinearB is easy. Syncing team structure from GitHub allows seamless integration and removing the admin associated with setting up tools and starting to use them effectively from day one.

LinearB can easily give you an overview of where Engineering organisations are spending their time and on what initiatives maximising the ROI for your most valuable business outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is important to remember that LinearB is an excellent tool for Engineering leaders driving teams to improve efficiency, but this needs to be tied back to company metrics and objectives to realise business value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LinearB helped my teams understand the metrics they care about - cycle time ; review time ; PR size ; merge frequency; planning accuracy ; issues done. Before LinearB, our leadership ran their teams without having this data available at their fingertips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some features that used to lack from LinearB. However, the LinearB team have always been super helpful and responsive in hearing me out and helping to prioritize the missing features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.