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Engineering leadership in 2026 looks very different than it did even a year ago.
AI tools are everywhere, teams are leaner, delivery pressure is higher, and yet many organizations are still planning capacity and tracking impact with outdated assumptions. Spreadsheets look neat in board decks, but reality keeps breaking them.
This month’s Waydev Cloud updates focus on one core theme: making engineering reality visible. Not just what tools are enabled, but how AI is actually used. Not just what plans say, but where effort truly goes. And not just faster dashboards, but dashboards leaders can trust.
Here’s what’s new, and why it matters.
AI adoption is no longer about access. It’s about behavior.
Waydev now supports Devin as part of AI Adoption tracking, alongside tools like Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and Windsurf. This gives engineering and product leaders a clear picture of how AI is actually used in day-to-day work—not just which tools are switched on.
You can now:
This matters because AI impact doesn’t come from licenses. It comes from consistent usage, meaningful workflows, and measurable outcomes. Seeing adoption side by side across tools helps leaders understand where AI is accelerating work, where it’s underused, and where expectations don’t match reality.
With better visibility comes responsibility.
Contributor names in AI Adoption views now fully respect privacy settings across the platform. If your organization has enabled “Hide other contributors’ names,” those names will no longer appear anywhere in AI usage details.
Permissions can be reviewed in Settings → Operation Users → Edit Role and Permissions → AI Adoption.
This ensures that AI insights remain actionable while still respecting organizational privacy standards.
Dashboards are only useful if leaders believe them.
We fixed multiple issues that could cause Custom Dashboards to show inconsistent or incorrect data. Dashboard widgets now load correctly, metrics behave consistently, and shared dashboards are reliable enough for leadership reviews and decision-making.
You can review your dashboards in Studio → Custom Dashboards.
Reliable dashboards aren’t a feature. They’re the foundation of data-driven leadership. When dashboards are unreliable, teams revert to gut feel. When they’re trustworthy, data becomes the shared language across engineering, product, and the executive team.
And that foundation matters more than ever—because the gap between what plans say and what’s actually happening has never been wider.
As teams grow, so does the complexity of managing who sees what.
Waydev now includes group-based filtering and access scoping in Teams Management, designed for organizations with many teams, projects, and managers operating in parallel.
You can now:
Find it in Setup → Teams Management → Contributors / Teams.
This brings cleaner setups, clearer ownership, and better delegation—especially in multi-project environments where the line between “your team” and “the whole org” needs to be drawn precisely.
In 2026, static capacity planning is no longer just clunky. It’s dangerous.
Quarterly plans often look solid on slides – until reality hits. Dependencies slip. Priorities flip overnight. Production issues consume key engineers. Roadmaps fall behind. Burnout builds in the background.
AI has made this gap more visible. Some tasks are dramatically faster; others remain deeply human. Average velocity based on last quarter simply can’t keep up with this uneven reality.
The legacy planning model prioritizes utilization over sustainability. It leaves no buffer for surprises and rewards weekend heroics instead of long-term delivery.
Teams that thrive have moved to planning that’s alive, outcome-focused, and human-centered.
They track value delivered, not just activity. They care whether shipped work actually moves the needle. Waydev’s Resource Allocation shows exactly where effort goes – across features, bugs, KTLO, maintenance, and strategic initiatives – with real costs attached. “We feel stretched” becomes data. “42% of last quarter went to unplanned support” becomes proof.
They shift from static plans to dynamic reality. Work shifts week to week. Winning teams rebalance continuously using live signals: actual headcount, changing priorities, true throughput. Waydev’s Resource Planning helps leaders model realistic scenarios based on today’s reality, not last quarter’s averages. That means faster course correction and fewer broken commitments.
They prevent overload before it breaks people. Crises rarely explode overnight. They simmer. Cycle times creep up. PR queues grow. Work in progress quietly explodes. By tracking allocation and workload patterns early, leaders can intervene in week three – not at quarter-end – before burnout and quality issues set in.
Legacy planning was designed for calmer days. Today, it’s creating the chaos it was meant to solve.
Sustainable, data-driven allocation is no longer optional. It’s what separates teams that keep evolving from those that fracture under pressure.
These updates are about closing the gap – between intent and reality, between AI promises and actual outcomes, between plans that look good and systems that actually work.
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