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LinearB

Score7.8 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is LinearB?

LinearB is a tool for software development organizations that allows for improved productivity based on objective data driven insights.

Founded in 2018, Los Angeles-based LinearB promises a fresh approach to software development project management and metrics, for example helping developer teams correlate project issues with data from their code, Git, projects, and more. LinearB promises to bring context to the metrics, helping engineering leaders understand what is happening across a team and how they can improve things.

A great tool for watching progress metric and time management!!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

LinearB helps us optimize the process and stages to develop our software for our clients. It helps us allocate time in various parts of the development process to ensure we can optimize the right parts. It also helps us to track our workforce across the many teams and engineers we have.

Pros

  • We connected our Gitlab and Jira accounts, set up our squads and projects, and the tool delivered value to us straight away.
  • It also provides a vibrant community for developers, and also you can sign up for free.
  • The best benefits we have received from LinearB is using a metric called Cycle Time.

Cons

  • Tracking work based on Kanban methodology has some glitches and is not fully supported in linear.

Most Important Features

  • LinearB gives you deeper visibility into what developers are working on, their time load, who is doing what, etc.

Return on Investment

  • We have a better overview in terms of quality and change in a project.