LinearB is a platform designed to empower engineering leaders with data-driven insights for continuous improvement. It tackles three key areas: benchmarking, workflow automation and investment. Our experience with LinearB's metrics tooling highlights its potential to support a culture of continuous improvement. One of our teams leveraged the platform to track engineering metrics, identify and discuss improvement opportunities and define actionable steps based on data, leading to measurable progress. We're happy to see that this aligns with LinearB's core value proposition: benchmark, automate and improve. LinearB integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Jira. It offers a comprehensive suite of preconfigured engineering metrics, with a strong focus on DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and time to restore). As strong advocates of the four key metrics as defined by the DORA research, we appreciate LinearB's emphasis on measuring what truly matters for software delivery performance. Historically, gathering DORA-specific metrics has been a challenge. Teams have resorted to complex CD pipeline instrumentation, custom-built dashboards or rely on manual processes. Although our experience is limited to one team, LinearB seems to be a compelling alternative for gathering and tracking engineering metrics as well as fostering a data-driven approach to continuous improvement.
