FAQs 🤔

We get it—adopting a new engineering intelligence platform comes with questions. We've compiled the most common ones here to give you the clarity and confidence you need.

General

❓ What is EvolveDev?

EvolveDev is a software engineerng intelligence platform that provides engineering managers and leaders with a single source of truth to measure and improve their development lifecycle.

By integrating directly with your dev tools, we deliver more than just data—we provide actionable insights across individuals, teams, and the entire organization to help you make smarter decisions, faster.

💡 Who is EvolveDev.io for?

Our platform is built specifically for Software Engineering Managers, Directors, VPs of Engineering, and other engineering leaders. If you're responsible for team productivity, project delivery, and aligning engineering work with business goals, EvolveDev.io is designed to be your go-to resource.

📋 We already use a project management dashboard. Why do we need another tool to track engineering activity?

That’s a crucial distinction, and you’re right to ask it. Think of it this way:

• A project management dashboard is excellent for tracking the 'what' and 'when' of your work—what features are being built and when they are scheduled for completion. It manages the project.
• EvolveDev.io is designed to give you visibility into the 'how'—how your team is actually building and the health of your engineering process. It manages the workflow.

We analyze your team's entire workflow—from the first commit to final deployment—to highlight hidden bottlenecks that project boards miss, such as stalled code reviews or high rates of rework. This provides the actionable insights you need to improve your engineering process, not just track project status.

Product & Features

📊 What kind of metrics can I see?

We provide a comprehensive set of metrics that matter to engineering teams, without being overwhelming. This includes:

• 🚀 Delivery Metrics: Cycle Time, Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate (DORA metrics).
• ❤️‍🩹 Project & Sprint Health: Sprint Burndown, Scope Creep, Work Distribution (Features vs. Bugs vs. Chores).
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Team Dynamics: Code Review Velocity, Quality, Impact, and collaboration patterns from Slack and email.

You can view these at the individual, team, and organizational levels.

💰 How does the "Investment Dashboard" work?

The Investment Dashboard helps you answer the crucial question: "Where is our engineering time actually going?" By analyzing data from your issue trackers and code repositories, it automatically categorizes effort into buckets like 'New Features', 'Technical Debt', 'Bug Fixes', and 'Keeping the Lights On'. This gives you clear visibility to ensure your team's effort is aligned with your strategic business priorities.

🛠️ Can I build my own custom dashboards?

Yes. We know that every team and organization is unique. While we provide a set of pre-built, best-practice dashboards out of the box, you have the flexibility to create custom dashboards and reports that focus on the specific metrics and goals that are most important to you.

Integrations & Data Security 🔒

🧩 Which tools do you integrate with?

Currently, we have robust integrations with GitHub,Bitbucket, Jira, Slack, and email. We are actively working on expanding our list of integrations, with tools like GitLab, Sentry, Jenkis and PagerDuty next on our roadmap.

🔒 How does EvolveDev handle our code?

EvolveDev handles your data by integrating with your development tools via webhooks, not by directly accessing your code. We receive real-time, event-based data—like a new pull request or commit—and only use API calls for an initial back sync to populate historical data. We don't store or access your git data.

Onboarding & Team Adoption

🚀 How quickly can we get set up and see results?

Connect your engineering stack in minutes and see immediate results. Our simple, step-by-step onboarding gets you up and running instantly. You'll have access to live dashboards and actionable insights right away, giving you a meaningful view of your team's data within the first day.

🧑‍💻 How does EvolveDev benefit our engineers, not just managers?

This is at the core of our philosophy. EvolveDev.io is designed as a tool for the entire team, not a surveillance tool for managers. Our focus is on improving systems, not scrutinizing individuals.

We help teams by making their collective workflow visible, so they can see what’s helping them and what’s holding them back. It’s about answering questions together, like: 🤔 "Where is our work getting stuck?" or "How can we protect our time for deep, focused work?"

By highlighting systemic bottlenecks, we enable objective, team-led conversations in retrospectives, leading to a smoother, less frustrating development process for everyone. ✨