Sleuth

04/03/2025

Most engineering dashboards don’t provide actionable insights. Are those charts, metrics actually helping your team improve? Or is it just noise?

What if your dashboards actually helped you improve delivery, reduce incidents, and enhance productivity?

The proliferation and death of engineering metrics dashboards

03/31/2025

Engineering teams generate tons of data about their work — how can they make use of it to improve productivity and DevEx?

Use AI.

AI can cut through the noise and identify patterns that humans just wouldn't sift through manually even if they could 👇

Use AI to spot patterns and anomalies in pull requests and mine engineering data for an AI-powered engineering intelligence

02/28/2025

What if your dashboards could do more than just display metrics? What if they could bridge the gap between strategic goals and daily ex*****on?

Sleuth explores how to design dashboards that bring teams together rather than pull them apart:

Metrics dashboards could divide or unite your team depending on how you roll them out

02/24/2025

These are the Top 3 anti-patterns when you use AI for Engineering management purposes:

#1 - Replacing team members with AI 😱
#2 - Augmenting junior devs with AI 🤔
#3 - Automating recruitment with AI 🙄

Read here to learn more 👇
https://www.sleuth.io/post/ai-management-anti-patterns/

AI for Management Anti-patterns

02/20/2025

Meetings are Killing Your Gains!!

Many teams struggle with endless stand-ups, status updates, and check-ins that disrupt deep work.

Great teams run well-structured, data-driven Engineering Reviews instead.

Read how 👉

Meetings vs. Reviews

01/28/2025

Fight night? Watch Don and Carl spar over what the perfect metric is for measuring software engineering productivity 🥊

Contenders including lines of code 🤮, DORA metrics, SPACE metrics, cycle time, and more!

01/15/2025

One year ago we set about building the next generation of Sleuth, code-named Pulse for the heartbeat of the Engineering organization.

Fast forward a year, and Sleuth 2.0 is officially here: AI-driven, fully-interactive, engineering metrics intelligence platform designed for engineers, by engineers.

Our vision for this product, from day one, was to move away from dashboards towards actionable metrics infused into your teams' rituals and cycles:

- Standup reporting with git and Jira data
- PR-approval delays and productivity bottlenecks
- Epic progress in sprint reviews
- Investment streams in monthly CTO discussions
- And more!

Sleuth Reviews combine PR-style submissions and approvals with templates for every type of activity, like sprint reviews, quarterly reporting, DevEx surveys, and more, enabling Engineering to drive improvement via operationalization of core metrics of quality and flow.

Read the full post here 👉

Sleuth 2.0, the pulse of your Eng org

01/13/2025

Derek DeBellis, Lead DORA researcher, made a really good point: the stability of engineering priorities directly affects burnout!

01/10/2025

Can AI in 2025 automate toilsome non-development work like writing up reports and attending meetings?

01/09/2025

If you have to prove that work is getting done and things are going in the right direction... use metrics as evidence. Better yet, use Sleuth's review templates that autofill those metrics for you 🙂

01/08/2025

Will AI finally replace developers in 2025??

01/06/2025

Back in the 90s they said they'd replace people with tiny shell scripts. In 2025, will AI finally replace Eng Managers?

Join Don and Carl's watch party to review the biggest tech trends of 2025: Jan 7th, 2025 at 9am PT 👇

https://www.sleuth.io/post/tech-trends-2025-ai/