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  • LinearB Secures $50M in Funding, Increasing Engineering Efficiency by Enabling Developers to Spend More Time Coding

    Round led by Tribe Capital with 83North, Battery Ventures and Salesforce Ventures;
    Company to invest in expansion of global team to automate and optimize developer workflow.

    Los Angeles, USA and Tel Aviv, ISRAEL, May 2, 2022 — LinearB, the engineering efficiency platform, today announced $50 million in Series B financing led by Tribe Capital. Joining Tribe Capital in the round is new investor Salesforce Ventures as well as existing investors Battery Ventures and 83North. Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, will join the LinearB board. This round brings total funding for LinearB to $71 million.

    More than 5,000 software development organizations use LinearB as a source for engineering analytics and developer workflow optimization. The engineering efficiency platform correlates data from existing project management, Git, deployment and incident management tools to provide workflow metrics used to optimize the development process. Acknowledging that metrics alone won’t improve development team performance, LinearB helps engineering teams identify automation opportunities that deliver dramatic and sustained improvement.

    Adoption of LinearB has grown dramatically in the past year, from 1,500 development teams to now reaching over 5,000, including many leading companies like Bumble, BigID, Cloudinary, Unbabel and Drata. Part of LinearB’s explosive growth in 2021 was fueled by its free tool, which offers dev teams pipeline metrics in fewer than five minutes.

    “LinearB is already being used by more than 100,000 developers around the world to deliver significant and continuous improvement,” said Sri Pangular, partner at Tribe Capital and LinearB’s newest board member. “The LinearB approach not only provides comprehensive visibility into the development pipeline for engineering leadership, but also enables organizations to achieve and sustain efficiency improvement.”

    “Streamlining data directly to software development teams is the only sustainable way to improve engineering efficiency,” said Alex Kayyal from Salesforce Ventures. “LinearB’s developer-first automation gives every dev team the ability to improve autonomously, without manager involvement. We are excited to partner with LinearB as they scale their workflow automation solution.”

    LinearB will use the Series B funding to scale its engineering team and accelerate the development of its platform. LinearB will also invest in its customer success, sales and marketing teams to amplify its developer-first philosophy to workflow optimization in new markets across the globe.

    “This round of funding expands our group of investors who recognize the vast potential of our developer-first approach to engineering efficiency,” said Ori Keren, CEO and co-founder of LinearB. “If you’re excited about cutting-edge developer tech, we invite you to join us. We’re looking for talented individuals around the world—software engineers and customer success, sales and marketing experts—who want to create a category-defining platform.”

    LinearB user Shuki Levy, a team lead at Jit.io, said, “LinearB automates my non-coding workflows so I have more time to do what I love, build new features. WorkerB has also sped up collaboration between developers to get our code merged faster. It’s one of my favorite tools.”

    Vice President of Research Jon Collins at GigaOM said, “We believe LinearB’s developer-first, automation-driven approach to workflow improvement offers a powerful way to improve value stream metrics. As this market continues to mature from engineering efficiency to business effectiveness, we are excited to see how ML-driven developer workflow optimization enhances how software development teams deliver value to their organizations.”

    Visit https://linearb.io/careers/ to learn more about career opportunities at LinearB.

    Recent LinearB Metrics and Milestones

    Engineering organizations that use LinearB to automate development workflows see an average increase of 64% in speed of deployment over 120 days. This level of sustained improvement has led to an over 5x increase in sales since 2021.

    “We’re not just building a tool that helps dev teams, we’re creating a community of engineering leaders that want to improve the way software development happens,” said Dan Lines, co-founder and COO of LinearB, and host of the Dev Interrupted podcast.

    Dev Interrupted, is the premiere community for software engineering leadership, consisting of a podcast that gets 2,000+ downloads a week and a Discord Community of 2,100+ engineering leaders and a bi-annual conference, INTERACT, that welcomed 1,700+ engineering leaders from 95 countries at its latest event. Visit https://devinterrupted.com/ to discover the new faces of engineering leadership.

    About LinearB
    Don’t stop at “data-driven insights.” LinearB is an engineering efficiency tool that correlates data across your tools to identify bottlenecks and automate developer workflow optimization. This developer-first approach to automating engineering improvement uses data as the foundation for creating autonomous, self-improving dev teams. Engineering organizations use LinearB to reduce cycle time, improve planning accuracy and ensure on-time value delivery.

  • LinearB Launches ‘Dev Interrupted’ Community to Help Software Engineering Leaders Continuously Improve

    Engineering leaders from GitHub, Netflix, and Honeycomb join the Dev Interrupted community event on May 20 to discuss Continuous Improvement

    Los Angeles, CA and Tel Aviv, Israel, May 18, 2021 — LinearB, the team behind Software Delivery Intelligence, has launched the “Dev Interrupted” community, which consists of a Discord community, podcast, newsletter, and events (https://www.DevInterrupted.com). As an engineering leadership community with over 1,000 discord members, Dev Interrupted brings the most forward thinking minds together to establish the future of daily continuous improvement for software development teams.

    Dev Interrupted presents new ideas by the world’s most innovative engineering leaders at community events each month. On May 20 at 12noon PT, Dana Lawson, VP of Engineering at GitHub, Kathryn Koehler, Director of Productivity Engineering at Netflix, and Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb, join the Dev Interrupted community for a livestream watch party focused on creating daily improvement in engineering organizations.

    Sign-up for the event at https://linearb.io/continuous-improvement-leaders/

    “Dev Interrupted is a place to promote organic, forward-thinking ideas from the new faces of software engineering leadership.” said Dan Lines, co-founder of LinearB  and host of the Dev Interrupted podcast. “It is not just a LinearB user community. We believe in creating a space that engineering leaders can come together, share ideas, have a bit of fun and have something tangible to take back and share with their teams.”

    Dev Interrupted is led by community moderators that facilitate daily interactions in Discord. Discord is an anonymous chat-based community that allows openness, vulnerability and honesty between leadership peers. These unfiltered, organic discussions are valuable to the community for creating relationships and pushing new ideas forward. The Dev Interrupted Discord is a place where engineering leaders from around the world can connect on topics ranging from team culture, hiring, leadership and metrics.

    Join Dev Interrupted Discord at https://discord.com/invite/AMdYuhxkJV

    Dev Interrupted uses community-driven conversation as the focus of their podcasts, articles, and discussions. Several members from the Discord community also join Dan Lines on the popular Dev Interrupted podcast. Recent guests include:

    • Eric Johnson, CTO at GitLab
    • Ian Nowland, SVP of Core Engineering at Datadog
    • John Willis, Senior Director Global Transformation Office at Red Hat
    • Cate Huston, Engineering Director at DuckDuckGo
    • Anders Wallgren, VP of Technology Strategy at Cloudbees
    • Spiros Xanthos, VP of Product Management, Observability & IT Ops at Splunk

    Subscribe and listen to the Dev Interrupted Podcast on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/7icMkauSvLflWCpQrfafIv

    About LinearB

    Metrics alone don’t improve dev teams. Software Delivery Intelligence (SDI) helps dev teams continuously improve by turning insight into action. Unlike top-down engineering metrics tools which become shelf-ware, LinearB is a dev-first platform and provides value to every member of the team. Development organizations using LinearB’s SDI cut their Cycle Time in half after only 90 days. The result for developers is less bureaucracy, fewer interruptions and more time to build. The result for teams is fewer process bottlenecks and accelerated delivery. Activate Software Delivery Intelligence for your dev team in 5 minutes at linearb.io.

  • LinearB Raises $16M for Software Delivery Intelligence

    LinearB Raises $16M for Software Delivery Intelligence

    LinearB announced today it has raised an additional $16 million in funding to advance adoption of a software delivery intelligence platform.

    Ori Keren, LinearB CEO, said rather than relying on antiquated processes that require software development teams to track progress by reentering data into a project management application, it’s now possible to automatically collect all the relevant data required from the tools and platforms being employed to build software.

    The LinearB platform correlates DevOps pipeline data gathered from code, Git, projects and releases to provide visibility and context to every member of the development team. LinearB employs machine learning algorithms to construct and correlate that data, in real-time, to provide accurate insights into project status. That’s critical, because it empowers every individual on that team to make informed decisions about which tasks to prioritize without waiting for an explicit directive, Keren said.

    LinearB will, in part, use the funding to build integrations with a wider range of DevOps platforms and tools, Keren added.

    Software delivery intelligence differs from value stream management (VSM) platforms; though they provide similar insights, those surfaced by LinearB are aimed at developers rather than C-level executives trying to optimize deployment of limited resources across multiple teams, said Keren. In many ways, the data collected by LinearB could be employed to better inform a VSM platform, Keren added.

    LinearB, in contrast, makes it easier to identify which teams and projects need additional help in near-real-time using metrics surfaced in a dashboard that track, for example, cycle times. The goal is to provide insights that make it easier to predict and eliminate project delays, remediate high-risk code before it is included in a production environment, eliminate bottlenecks and make certain the focus of the DevOps team remains on tasks of the highest priority.

    More than 1,500 software development teams are already using LinearB as an alternative to traditional project management applications. Most of those customers are building commercial applications, so the goal now is to extend the reach of LinearB into the enterprise, said Keren.

    LinearB, of course, doesn’t eliminate the need for project managers. However, it does eliminate the need for project managers to nag developers to update a project management application. Given the rate at which application development projects are now updated, much of the data in a project management application is outdated shortly after it is entered.

    There’s a lot of pressure on application development teams these days. Many projects have been accelerated as part of an effort to more rapidly embrace digital business transformation in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The challenge for many developers is they, too, are working from home to help combat the spread of the virus. That often results in interactions with managers over video conferencing calls that lack context. Having access to a software development intelligence platform should enable everyone with a vested interest in application deployment speed to make more informed decisions faster.

  • Linearb Secures $16 Million Series A Funding Led By Battery Ventures For Software Delivery Intelligence

    New investment comes after six months of hypergrowth during which more than 1,100 Agile and DevOps teams adopted the LinearB platform  

    LOS ANGELES AND TEL-AVIV, March 10, 2021 – LinearB, the team behind Software Delivery  Intelligence, today announced $16 million in Series A funding to fundamentally change the way dev teams operate. The new investment was led by Battery Ventures, and includes existing investors 83North and Ariel Maislos, and new investor TechAviv Founder Partners. The investment brings LinearB’s total funding to $21 million.

    Launched in 2019, LinearB offers a new approach to traditional software development project management and metrics. Software Delivery Intelligence helps dev teams continuously accelerate delivery by correlating development pipeline data from code, Git, projects and releases to provide visibility, context and workflow automation for every member of the team.

    Visit https://linearb.io/ to activate Software Delivery Intelligence for your dev team in less than 5 minutes.

    “Every part of the software development process is driven by data today, except the writing and creation of code—which is impeding productivity for developers,” said Dharmesh Thakker, a Battery general partner. “LinearB is helping dev teams fix bottlenecks across the entire development process so they can work better with fewer interruptions. We are excited to partner with the LinearB team as they work to improve developer productivity and workflow, as well as better align engineering and business leaders.”

    “More than 1,100 dev teams adopted LinearB in the last six months alone. So it’s clear there’s demand for Software Delivery Intelligence,” said Gil Goren, Partner at 83North. “Ori and Dan have built a committed team and a passionate community of the best start-up engineering leaders in the world. We’re partnering with LinearB to take Software Delivery Intelligence into every dev team.”

    1,500+ software development teams in total use LinearB including many hyper-growth start-ups and unicorns like Axonius, BigID, Unbabel, Appcues and Clubhouse.

    “LinearB helps us analyze, triage and fix process problems. We get a full view of our engineering lifecycle we never had before,” said Zach Ozer, VP of Engineering at Clubhouse.” It’s been transformational for our dev team.”

    Unlike traditional project management and metrics tools which are useful for executives but create more work for developers, Software Delivery Intelligence provides value to every member of the team:

    Visibility: Team-based metrics help CTOs and VPs of Engineering understand efficiency and quality, detect process bottlenecks, visualize team health, and ensure alignment between engineering work and business priorities.

    Context: Intelligent project board correlates code, Git logs, project data and releases to help dev team leads see accurate, real-time project updates, predict delivery delays, identify scope-creep and run efficient, fact-based meetings.

    Workflow: Configurable policies, alerts and commands eliminate manual tasks for developers through automation, deliver personal insights at the right time where they work and help enforce team guardrails.
    The result is happier developers with more time to build, continuous team improvement and tighter alignment to business priorities which leads to accelerated delivery. Dev teams using LinearB SDI improve their time-to-value (Cycle Time) by 48 percent on average after 90 days.

    “Metrics alone do not improve dev teams. This is the mistake first-generation engineering efficiency tools made. Software Delivery Intelligence takes visibility and turns it into insight and active improvement,” said Ori Keren, CEO of LinearB. “Helping engineering teams improve and scale is not about managing developers more strictly with top down control. It’s about empowering developers by giving them more context, less bureaucracy and more time to build.”

    A driving factor in LinearB’s rapid growth is its focus on community and facilitating new thinking. Its fast-growing Dev Interrupted online community and podcast for progressive dev leaders facilitates open discussions and shared experiences around scaling teams, building culture and using Software Delivery Intelligence. LinearB co-founder Dan Lines, DZone’s 2020 Agile Person of the Year, leads these efforts.

    Visit https://discord.com/invite/tpkmwM6c3g to join the Dev Interrupted Discord community. To listen to the podcast, visit https://linearb.io/dev-interrupted-podcast-2/

    About LinearB

    Metrics alone don’t improve dev teams. Software Delivery Intelligence (SDI) helps dev teams continuously improve by turning insight into action. Unlike top-down engineering metrics tools which become shelf-ware, LinearB is a dev-first platform and provides value to every member of the team. Development organizations using LinearB’s SDI cut their Cycle Time in half after only 90 days. The result for developers is less bureaucracy, fewer interruptions and more time to build. The result for teams is fewer process bottlenecks and accelerated delivery. Activate Software Delivery Intelligence for your dev team in 5 minutes at linearb.io.

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  • LinearB and Clubhouse Partner to Help Dev Teams Continuously Improve Software Project Delivery

    LinearB Software Delivery Intelligence provides team-based performance metrics
    and project insights for Clubhouse customers

    LOS ANGELES AND NEW YORK, February 16, 2021 – LinearB, the team behind Software Delivery  Intelligence, and Clubhouse, the collaborative home for modern software teams, today announced a partnership to help software development teams continuously improve project delivery by providing a complete picture of product and engineering lifecycles. Technical integration between the products will offer dev teams detailed project visibility and team-based metrics by correlating data across projects, code, Git activity and releases.

    Sign up for LinearB and Clubhouse today at: (https://linearb.io/clubhouse-and-linearb/) 

    “Unfortunately, most project management and metrics tools today were designed with a top-down mindset and create more work for developers. Dev teams need tools that reduce friction and interruptions.” said Ori Keren, co-founder and CEO of LinearB. “Coupling LinearB Software Delivery Intelligence with Clubhouse team-focused project management provides data-driven insights to gauge project progress in real-time and better focus team resources on the work that matters most.”

    “We’re partnering with LinearB to help make work more enjoyable and efficient for each and every software team, regardless of their size,” said Zach Ozer, VP of Engineering at Clubhouse. “Task management shouldn’t be a task in and of itself. A more collaborative project management approach paired with visibility into the right dev team metrics helps streamline and refine existing team workflows.”

    LinearB uses code, Git logs and releases to automatically construct and visualize detailed progress timelines for open project issues with zero manual inputs and synchronizes updates to project systems eliminating costly developer interruptions. The platform automates the collection and display of team and project performance metrics that typically takes data engineers hours to compile manually.

    Clubhouse provides modern software teams with project management that enhances and complements their existing workflows. Managing a team’s tasks shouldn’t itself be a task, which is why Clubhouse avoids overwhelming their users with feature bloat, instead providing an intuitive and enjoyable project management experience that software teams genuinely enjoy using. That’s why thousands of software teams use Clubhouse to plan, manage, and collaborate on their software development work — from planning software to shipping software.

    Using LinearB and Clubhouse, members of product and engineering teams are empowered to make better decisions by getting insights delivered to them proactively. Features from the integration include:

    • Pulse timeline view provides detailed visibility of every feature, bug and chore by showing a live feed of activity from branches, PRs and releases for Clubhouse stories.
    • Workflow definition + alerts enable real-time improvement of active projects by highlighting blockers, delays, high-risk code, and branches merged without review for Clubhouse stories.
    • Shadow work detector empowers more accurate team planning and time allocation by finding developer work in Git that is not attached to a Clubhouse story.
    • Advanced cycle time dashboard enhances the native Clubhouse cycle time view to add bottleneck detection by visualizing the time across individual development phases – coding time, PR pick-up time, PR review time and release time.
    • Advanced team-based metrics help leaders measure performance and drive improvement of team and project quality, efficiency, focus and health in the context of their Clubhouse iterations.

    “Pulse gives us a unified view across the state of our codebase and the state of our projects in Clubhouse. It’s a key source of ground truth.” said Chris Brookins, VP of Engineering at Appcues. “It’s easy to see project updates and key metrics that were difficult or impossible to get before.”

    About Clubhouse

    Clubhouse is the collaborative home for modern software teams. Thousands of companies worldwide use Clubhouse to plan, collaborate and build better software together. The company is headquartered in New York City and backed by Greylock Partners, Battery Ventures and other top-tier investors. For more information, visit https://www.clubhouse.io or follow Clubhouse on Twitter @Clubhouse.

    About LinearB

    LinearB believes dev teams need new, data-driven approaches focused on team and project performance — not static project management metrics. To advance better ways of working and team performance, its Software Development Intelligence gives team leads useful data to ensure the right work is done faster. At the same time, developers have the freedom and autonomy to work how they want. For more information, visit www.linearb.io.

     

  • LinearB Aligns with Clubhouse to Advance Project Management

    LinearB Aligns with Clubhouse to Advance Project Management

    LinearB, a provider of an analytics application for software delivery projects, announced today it has allied with Clubhouse, a provider of a project management application that includes built in collaboration tools.

    LinearB’s analytics application uses code, Git logs and releases to automatically construct and visualize detailed timelines without requiring any manual input. That data can now also be automatically fed into the Clubhouse project management application.

    Dan Lines, COO, LinearB, said the goal is to make it possible for any project participant to keep track of updates without spending hours manually compiling and entering data into a project management application.

    In addition, DevOps teams can use both applications to gain visibility into every feature, bug and chore via a live feed of activity generated by branches, pull requests and releases for Clubhouse stories. Along with tools for tracking individual activity and collecting metrics, blockers, delays, high-risk code and branches merged without review for Clubhouse stories are also highlighted. There is also a shadow work detector that detects activity in a Git repository that is not attached to a Clubhouse story.

    Lines said one of the project management challenges organizations face today is the tools they employ only allow them to see segments of a DevOps pipeline. The LinearB analytics application unifies the data and metrics required to make an informed decision, without having to first collect and then normalize data residing in different tools. Instead, all the metrics required to make an informed decision about how best to allocate limited software development resources is automatically collected from the tools the DevOps team employs, Lines said.

    There is no need, then, for project managers to pester members of a DevOps team to enter data in a separate analytics or project management application, Lines added. Given the rate at which application development projects are now updated, much of the data manually entered into a project management application is usually outdated, anyway.

    LinearB employs the application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by DevOps tools to gather the existing metadata about the status of any given project. LinearB then employs machine learning algorithms to construct and correlate that data to give DevOps leaders more accurate insights into the status of a project, instead of requiring that data to be entered manually.

    In fact, Lines said meetings should be shorter, too, because rather than the need to provide a status update, it will become apparent to everyone what the real status of a project is before a meeting even starts. That means more time can be allocated to determining how best to optimize limited application development resources, Lines said.

    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have more application development initiatives underway than ever. Many of these projects are core to digital business transformation initiatives which a core group of developers are working on simultaneously. Being able to dynamically reallocate resources to a faster-moving project from one that is stalled is increasingly critical. The challenge has been that the more projects there are, the harder it becomes to collect data that accurately reflects their true status at any given time. The goal should be to eliminate the need to reenter data that, in one form or another, already exists in another tool.

  • LinearB Software Delivery Intelligence Helps Dev Teams Build and Ship Value Faster

    Invisible project management, real-time insights and team metrics usher in a new data-driven approach for delivery efficiency, software quality and continuous team improvement

    LOS ANGELES & TEL AVIV — December 15, 2020, LinearB, the team behind Software Delivery Intelligence, today introduced a new, essential tool for dev teams to ship faster with higher quality. Correlating Git and project management data, LinearB delivers dashboards, reports and real-time alerts of how teams actually work to predict and eliminate project delays, remediate high-risk code, remove cycle bottlenecks, illuminate shadow work and ensure focus on high-priority tasks.

    LinearB is free forever for individual teams. To sign-up, visit linearb.io/sign-up-free.

    “Something is broken with how software projects are delivered. While Git and CI/CD tools have adopted a dev-first approach, project management and engineering efficiency tools have a top-down mindset and actually make life harder for developers,” said Ori Keren, co-founder and CEO of LinearB. “Dev teams need tools that live in their workflow, reduce manual work and help them focus on building and improving. Think of Software Delivery Intelligence as Git correlation and reconstruction technology that makes project management updates redundant, with team metrics and operational insights built in.”

    LinearB addresses challenges dev teams face today:

    Project Management Tools are good for planning but don’t add value once dev teams start building. They are unable to understand progress without manual status updates and fail when it comes to developer specific work happening in branches, pull requests and releases.

    Efficiency & Value Stream Tools miss the target of opening the engineering ‘black box’ because the metrics are not actionable. They also fail to gain adoption within the team because of the “big brother” cultural impact and the temptation to use executive dashboards to micromanage dev team activities.

    LinearB automatically constructs and visualizes detailed progress timelines for open project issues with zero manual inputs and synchronizes updates to project systems eliminating costly developer interruptions. The platform automates the collection and display of team and project performance data that typically takes data engineers hours to compile manually.

    Developers get insight about their work where they live in Slack and Git,  dev team leads get clear visibility from the first-ever project board with a full Git activity timeline for every issue, and VPs of Engineering get actionable team-based metrics that empower daily improvement.

    The result is a new data-driven approach to building and delivering software as a team:

    Better decision-making: LinearB flags which teams and projects need help so dev leaders know where their time and attention can do the most good each day.

    Faster delivery: Teams are alerted in real-time to project risks, delays and dependencies so they can course correct and deliver more features faster.

    Improved visibility: Dev leaders now have metrics for team performance, efficiency, quality and focus areas providing clarity about what to work on, when to hire and where to invest in automation.

    Better communication: Metrics are the language of business leaders. LinearB visualizes the most important team-based metrics like Cycle Time to help translate engineering to non-technical executives.

    Meaningful meetings: LinearB provides data-driven dashboards for stand-up, retro, sprint planning and release planning meetings ensuring conversations are fact-based and time is used efficiently.

    Asynchronous development: LinearB gives everyone real-time visibility into projects without the need for manual updates, interruptions or status meetings, empowering hybrid remote teams to work async.

    “LinearB connects the dots between our Git activity and project issues giving our team greater context into the work we’re doing every day and helping us deliver more efficiently,” said Brent Bartlett, VP of Engineering at Grin. “I use the team performance reports to keep the pulse of our remote team. They’re generated automatically which eliminates hours I used to spend manually collecting data from all of our different sources.”

    Building a community of progressive software development leaders

    To help dev leaders adopt this new way of working, LinearB hosts a community called Dev Interrupted consisting of a Discord chat server, podcast and weekly newsletter.

    Chris Downard, VP of Engineering at GigSmart, LinearB customer and Dev Interrupted community moderator said “I love the Dev Interrupted Discord. Every day there’s super smart dev leaders sharing ideas and helping each other improve.”

    To connect with other dev leaders and join the conversation, visit linearb.io/dev-interrupted

    About LinearB

    LinearB believes dev teams need new, data-driven approaches focused on team and project performance — not static project management metrics. To advance better ways of working and team performance, its Software Delivery Intelligence gives team leads useful data to ensure the right work is done faster, while developers have the freedom and autonomy to work how they want. For more information, visit www.linearb.io.