monday dev vs. Optimizely Feature Experimentation

If you do web programming, code integration with your remote team, and/or software development that requires real-time monitoring of development progress, monday dev is an excellent tool for this. Like its base platform, Monday.com, monday dev is developed and attempts to integrate into a very "new era" organizational system of digital whiteboards, only now focused more on productivity and helping developers to be comfortable in remote work.

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Based on my experience with Optimizely Feature Experimentation, I can highlight several scenarios where it excels and a few where it may be less suitable. Well-suited scenarios: - Multi-Channel product launches - Complex A/B testing and feature flag management - Gradual rollout and risk mitigation Less suited scenarios: - Simple A/B tests (their Web Experimentation product is probably better for that) - Non-technical team usage -

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• Tracking
• Changing Status
• Backlog

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• Splitting traffic between variants and enabling you to scale up or down the amount of traffic in each one
• Giving a standardised report that you can share with a huge number of users
• Showing a large variety of results/metrics you can then dive into

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• More customization in automated tasks
• Ability to send visual snapshots of reports and dashboards
• Integrated reports from dashboards in dev and work management

• Difficult integration if your data is not front end
• Costly MAU model needs to be based on experiments not on site visits
• It's not easy to understand how to build an Experiment
• Onboarding team is more focused on punching through their slides and not focused on your needs or understanding.

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We are very likely to renew, because it has been really useful

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Competitive landscape

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While monday dev is an excellent ally to organize and work in harmony with your team, there are still certain important aspects that need to be improved. They are minor, but if corrected, they will help improve the user experience when using it.

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Easy to navigate the UI. Once you know how to use it, it is very easy to run experiments. And when the experiment is setup, the SDK code variables are generated and available for developers to use immediately so they can quickly build the experiment code

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Our experience with Monday dev support has been good

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Support was there but it was pretty slow at most times. Only after escalation was support really given to our teams

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It’s straightforward. Docs are well written and I believe there must be a support. But we haven’t used it

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Monday is better than Jobber, as it gives you a place to see where all the jobs are and what the current status is. Everyone in the company can go to and see that view. It's not dependent on the status of the employee. Excel is much more technical and requires much more work to set up.

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In previous companies I've used Monetate which is a similar A/B testing kind of feature experimentation engine that is very similar from my memory, but again, back to the point of these new features of the analytics engine and Opal, it kind of cuts it above Monetate from my experience. Obviously Monetate may have improved since when I lost use it, but from what I can see, yeah.

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had troubles with performance for SSR and the React SDK

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• We can more easily grab the KPIs for our quarterly reviews.
• There are no automatic charts or reports I can pull for the quarter. Everything is manually gathered.
• Doesn't give us job costing.

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• We have a huge, noteworthy ROI case study of how we did a SaaS onboarding revamp early this year. Our A/B test on a guided setup flow improved activation rates by 20 percent, which translated to over $1.2m in retained ARR.

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