LinearB Reviews

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.

No comments as such. Will come up with any queries in the near feature.

LinearB address the solution in the areas of tracking the release status across multiple projects, Resource wise WBS, PR Code reviews, Count of PR merge spanning across different environments, Sprint wise statistics, Tracking repository changes, CI/CD Pipeline status and many more..

The clean and easy to use interface with all the relevant information at your fingertips.

Please could you add support for Discord.

The price is quite high for a South African company to swallow - you know Rand / Dollar exchange rate.

Do you have an offering for Open Source projects?

This might be far-fetched but how about some sort of Visual Studio Code / IDE plugin?

I can really recommend using LinearB, with its quick setup and valuable return on relevant and real-time information that will help cement solid business metrics and direction.

It will help us solve who is busy with what and at what velocity the work is being done. This will help us improve processes and thus make a better product and happy clients.

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.

New features often feel rushed into production, leading to usability issues that have required feedback/iterations before they became fully functional for our needs.

Improved visibility over work being done by our teams, allowing us to identify bottlenecks within our process, and even predict when a team is struggling (i.e. Insufficient planning/alignment, Employee burnout)

We have been using LinearB for over a year, and I remember vividly how it helped us identify problems in our cycle time through its rich data analytics and in-depth metrics. In addition, LinearB has been an invaluable tool for enabling and promoting our delivery capabilities.

Needless to say, the support from Linear throughout this journey has been phenomenal. Guy Rahamim has been our account manager and is just an absolute superstar.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Nothing that springs to mind, but more granular access over individual/group permissions is something worth considering.

LinearB offers real-time insights into development processes, helping identify and address issues as they arise.

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.

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.

Helping us understand which teams are operating efficiently and what improvements we should be targeting as we pursue fast flow and consistent delivery of value. This is both at an organizational level but also at a team level.

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.

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.

Provides feedback to the teams which would normally take time to gather and present. Time savings and metrics.

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.

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.

LinearB provides quality and reliable metrics that support the Engineering Leadership team to proactively identify issues and provide feedback to the team with tangible data. Using a tool such as LinearB centralizes data that usually live in different tools (VCS, project management, etc.), thus making it more efficient for Engineering Leads to oversee several projects simultaneously.

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.

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.

Bringing objectivity to engineering teams and helping improve development velocity.

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.

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.

LinearB solves the challenge of deciphering complex development metrics. Its guidance and insights help us focus on key priorities, streamlining our workflow and enhancing decision-making.

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.

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.

LinearB is empowering teams with a heightened sense of ownership over their improvement endeavors, as well as greater control over KPIs and OKRs. It offers stakeholders invaluable insights into team health and a deeper understanding of the underlying factors influencing the team's operational dynamics, both positive or negative. LinearB not only enhances team autonomy but also equips stakeholders with a comprehensive perspective, enabling informed decisions that are driving organizational success.