Waydev Reviews

Waydev provides multiple data points that help technical and non technical managers better manager their engineering efforts and critical points. As a Eng manager and founder of over 15 years, I believe that data can compliment the natural skills of most Eng managers out there. Also, as a former competitor of Waydev, I can attest that this is currently the best solution out there for those looking for a solution in this space!

Nothing so far though a public roadmap and more developer evangelism would be beneficial

Monitoring a remote team in the post covid era to pick up on crucial points often missed in qualitative assessments

* Clean UI

* Lots of reports and graphs and ways to measure team performance

* A lot of great integrations to our existing tools

* Pricing is just right

* I love the ability to create custom dashboards

* Can be slow sometimes

* New Sprint view does not sync with jira very well

* Allows us to gather data on team and individual performance

* Helps us measure effectiveness of sprints and planning

* Great coaching tools for improvement

* Drill down on PRs to see where the time is most spent

I'm a big fan! They do have a high product development speed and provide great updates constantly.

I also love their custom dashboards because it gives me the possibility to set up dashboards with all the metrics that I need, displayed exactly how I want to see them.

Nothing really, super communicative and supportive. Great insights for me and my managers.

It helps us track the bottlenecks we encounter before causing problems, which is a big time saver.

Based on all the insights, we managed to improve the efficicency of our team - for example, we have more frequent deploys and a smaller Change Failure Rate.

What I like most about Waydev are the DORA Metrics. I was really interested into zooming into our Change Failure Rate and Lead Time, and Waydev pulls them in automatically.

I’m also a big fan of the new Custom Dashboards feature because I like to have full control over what I see in my dashboard.

There is nothing that bothered us with the platform.

Before Waydev, we tried to track the progress of our teams and set some specific targets, but without a tool like this, it’s almost impossible to keep track of every important metric. Doing this manually takes lots of time. Waydev is a big time saver for a busy engineering leader, because it doesn't require manual imput from me or anyone in my team.

There are many things I like about the platform, but the one I like best must be that it truly improved the efficiency of my team. We didn’t exactly know where we could improve as a team, until we got Waydev. It gave us a lot of insight into what’s working well, and what’s not, so it gave us the power to perform better.

They did a great job, actually. Can't think of anything I don't like about the platform. If I have to nit pick I would love to learn how to make use of the charts within the app (some kind of learning center). But their awesome success team covered that pretty well.

We felt like we needed to have more insight into everything that’s going on in the software development process and see the areas we can improve. Waydev offered us full visibility and we knew exactly how to improve. For example, since we were able to measure it and zoom into it, our Cycle Time reduced considerably.

The data that guides us to seek the best performance in our teams

The User experience could be more dynamic. ...

1. Performance

2. Coding Quality

3. Directions on how to improve our less experts devs to achieve the excellence.

The way that we can use the platform to evaluate our engineers team. The insights provided make me take my teams to the next level. I've tried others tools, but waydev is the most complete and stable

Is in development so, some features are not there yet. So you may experience some troubles and some delay in some features. but the constant improvemente is there.

The way do evaluate, measure and developer development teams. I have increased in more than 600% lead time thanks to them. We sell more, developed better. It's a must have

I've used and compared other tools, but Waydev seems to be the only one to combine all the features I need with customization options.

I'd like to see more detail into unplanned work types.

Waydev gives us visibility on our remote developers day to day work as well as trends over time.

We have recently switched from a competitor developer analytics tool to Waydev and are super happy and impressed by its quality. In general, we see 4 big arguments for Waydev:

1.) The content they provide via mail and blog is great. I was reading it already for a long time before deciding to go with Waydev, and it was also the main reason why I decided to give it a try.

2.) They provide more KPIs than its competitors and seem to be the leading platform in this regard / have the highest product development speed. Here, I was rather disappointed by our previous tool, which seemed to be stuck for ~2 years after it got acquired by a bigger company.

3.) I just learnt after using Waydev how valuable it is to connect your CI pipeline to your KPIs. The combination of Git-hosting provider (Gitlab / Github), Jira / ticketing system and CI pipeline is really awesome and gives you the possibility to track your DORA metrics (if you don't know what it is, check Waydev's blog).

4.) Last but certainly not least, Waydev has outstanding customer support with super fast response times. But not only do they respond fast (and even the Head of Customer Success is reaching out), they also act fast. I had a few questions during my onboarding, and they were even able to speed up the connection of my repositories to make the onboarding smoother.

The onboarding process was tricky. You need to start configuring your git hosting provider with all the repositories you want to use, you need to get an access token to your Jira system, and then you need to connect your CI pipeline tool. Although I was used to it, it took some time to go through. But the good thing is that the support was actively helping me during the process and as described above, was even able to speed up processes. And in comparison, the tool we were using before was even more complicated, so the onboarding is already much better than the competition :)

It basically solves three problems for us and for me:

1.) When your development department gets bigger and is split across multiple teams / multiple repositories, it's very hard to keep track of all teams and team members. Waydev helps you to see your department's and team's KPIs, so that you can start conversations when KPIs go below what you would expect. In the end, even if it's just data and needs your interpretation, it's very valuable data that is hard to get somewhere else.

2.) In addition to my first point, it gives you KPIs you can use to report your department's status quo to upper management (or non-developers in general). Most KPIs do not require developer knowledge or only to a certain amount, so that you can easily use it align on business goals / how development can support these business goals.

3.) It just helps you to get better. I don't see it only as developer analytics, but more as a way for process improvements. Your code review timings go up? Check with your team and make sure they have enough time for quality reviews. No commits on Mondays? Maybe you need to split sprint meetings into multiple days, so that your devs have time every day. In general, it gives you a deep understanding of your team behavior and gives you ways to improve it.

- Easy to integrate Bitbucket repositories and Jira projects together.

- Full visibility across all the development workflow.

- Metrics breakdown across different teams.

- Custom reports are easy to share with executive teams and project stakeholders.

- A bit expensive for mid-size companies

- Billing should be done on a monthly basis too, instead of on a yearly basis only.

- The automated weekly reports are useful to share with each engineering team to discuss and improve the team's performance and collaboration as much as possible — also really useful for sprint retrospectives.

- The same reports and insights can also be used as baselines for engineering performance reviews and 1:1s.

- Custom reports are easy to share with executive teams and project stakeholders.