See Where Your Engineering Efforts Truly Go with Investment Categories! 🚀

As engineering managers and leaders, you're trying to steer the ship, deliver on ambitious goals, and keep your team productive and happy. But often, it feels like you're flying blind when it comes to understanding where your team's precious time and effort are actually being spent. Are we building enough new features? Is tech debt silently crippling our progress? How much time are we really dedicating to keeping the lights on?

At EvolveDev.io, we believe that data-driven decisions are the backbone of high-performing engineering organizations. That's why we're thrilled to announce our brand-new feature: Investment Categories!

The Challenge: Understanding Your Team's Focus

Think about it: Your team is churning out code, closing tickets, and pushing PRs. But what story do all these individual actions tell when viewed collectively? Without clear visibility, it's incredibly difficult to answer crucial questions like:

• Are we investing enough in innovation (New Features)?
• Is our technical debt becoming a silent drain on productivity?
• How much time are we truly spending on maintaining existing systems (KTLO)?
• Are we effectively tackling bugs before they escalate?
• Are our developer productivity initiatives actually paying off?

This lack of clarity can lead to misaligned efforts, missed deadlines, and a general feeling of not quite knowing if your team is moving in the right strategic direction. The data lives in silos across GitHub, Jira, and other tools, making it nearly impossible to get this holistic picture manually.

The Solution: EvolveDev.io's Investment Categories—Powered by AI!

Our new Investment Categories feature directly addresses this challenge. By seamlessly integrating with your existing tools like GitHub, Jira, Slack, and email, EvolveDev.io now automatically categorizes your team's efforts across key development areas.

And here's the game-changer: we leverage AI to automatically label your tickets, pull requests, and other development activities under the relevant investment categories. This means you get a crystal-clear, live view of your engineering investments, without the manual data collection headache or the burden of manual tagging. Our AI learns from your data, ensuring accurate and consistent categorization.

Here's a look at the categories we're tracking:

• Bug Fixes: Efforts dedicated to resolving defects and issues.
• KTLO (Keeping The Lights On): Work involved in maintaining existing systems, infrastructure, and ensuring operational stability.
• New Features: Time spent on building innovative new functionalities.
• Dev Productivity: Initiatives aimed at improving developer efficiency and workflow.
• Tech Debt: Addressing accumulated technical debt and improving code health.
• Feature Enhancements: Improving and refining existing features.

What Does This Mean for You?

For Engineering Managers: Guiding Your Team with Precision

Imagine seeing that your team's "Tech Debt" contribution suddenly spiked to over 15% last quarter. That's a powerful signal! It immediately tells you that past neglect of tech debt is now impacting your current development velocity. With this AI-powered insight, you can:

• Proactively adjust priorities: Allocate dedicated sprints for tech debt or bug fixes before they become critical.
• Optimize resource allocation: Ensure your team's efforts align with strategic goals.
• Identify bottlenecks: Understand if a disproportionate amount of time is spent on non-value-adding tasks.
• Have data-backed conversations: Justify resource needs or celebrate successful shifts in focus.

This feature empowers you to understand the "direction your team is heading" with unprecedented clarity and minimal manual effort.

For Engineering Leaders (Directors, VPs, Heads of Engineering): Strategic Oversight at Your Fingertips

For leaders overseeing multiple teams or even an entire organization, Investment Categories provide the holistic perspective you've been missing. You can now:

• Assess strategic alignment: Are organizational efforts truly being spent on your top strategic initiatives (e.g., new product development vs. maintenance)?
• Identify areas of concern: Spot trends across departments, like a company-wide surge in bug fixes indicating a quality issue.
• Optimize organizational investments: Make informed decisions about where to double down on resources or where to pull back.
• Track progress towards goals: Understand if you're on track to achieve your company-wide objectives based on where efforts are being channeled.

This isn't just about metrics; it's about enabling data-driven leadership to ensure your entire engineering organization is moving in unison towards your collective goals, effortlessly categorized by our intelligent AI.

At EvolveDev.io, our mission is to remove the headaches of data collection and provide you with actionable insights that truly make a difference. Investment Categories, powered by our cutting-edge AI, is a huge step in that direction, giving you the power to see, understand, and strategically direct your engineering efforts like never before.

Ready to gain unparalleled clarity into your engineering investments? Request a demo today and see how EvolveDev.io can transform your engineering operations!

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