Mar 8, 2022
I'd choose Swarmia over Code Climate Velocity any day because Swarmia's development productivity platform is not just a dashboard for the engineering leadership. Swarmia focuses on measuring and improving productivity on the team and organization levels. (Code Climate) Velocity, on the other hand, focuses on tracking the activity of individual developers which can create mistrust in the organization and negatively affect data quality. In Swarmia you can't find those harmful metrics used in (Code Climate) Velocity, like lines of code, activity leaderboards, and code churn. Instead, Swarmia focuses on measuring a wide variety of healthy engineering metrics that are backed by science like DORA and the SPACE framework. In addition to delivering useful insights across GitHub, Jira and Linear, Swarmia allows teams to set their own targets based on what’s relevant and achievable for them. It also connects with Slack to deliver daily updates to team channels and relevant reminders to developers. With Swarmia, everyone has access to the same metrics and teams are in charge of their own data quality. If you’re looking to go beyond individual activity metrics and engineering dashboards, Swarmia might be a better fit for you as well.