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Introducing Resource Allocation – Visualize Costs & Efforts!

December 10th, 2024
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The new Resource Allocation

Understand better how well engineering resources are allocated with our new Resource Allocation. This allows you to visualize costs per epic/project and how much engineering effort you allocate from your team.

Engineering leaders make hundreds of decisions every quarter, yet one of the most important questions has always been the hardest to answer: Where are our people, time, and budget actually going?
Most teams still rely on scattered spreadsheets, manual estimates, or outdated reports that fail to show the real picture.

Today, that changes.

Waydev is introducing Resource Allocation, a new capability designed to help leaders instantly understand how their engineering organization invests its effort and spend across products, priorities, initiatives, and teams.

This is the missing link between strategy and execution.

Why Resource Allocation matters

In every company, engineering is one of the largest investments, but leaders rarely have a unified way to see how that investment is distributed.
This creates blind spots:

Resource Allocation solves all these problems by pairing work effort with cost visibility in one place.

How it works

Waydev brings together data from your git systems, ticketing tools, and contributor metadata to build a clear view of where your engineering investment goes. You can instantly see:

– Effort allocation by initiative, product, epic, or team

Understand how much engineering time goes into each area of the business.

– Cost allocation based on contributor rates

Map real cost to real work, no more estimates and no more spreadsheet math.

– Trends over time

Spot shifts early, whether a team is spending more effort on maintenance, incidents, or an initiative that is expanding beyond scope.

– Variance between planned vs actual investment

See if strategic plans are supported by real engineering work.

Everything updates automatically, without manual tagging, sheets, or extra overhead for engineers.

For the first time, engineering can show the business a clear financial view

Companies often ask engineering the same questions Finance and Product ask Sales or Marketing:

Resource Allocation gives you precise answers backed by real data, not assumptions.

Who is this for?

CTOs & VPs of Engineering

Get a financial model of the engineering organization that matches real execution.

Engineering Managers

Spot resource drains early, balance workloads, and justify team needs with data.

Product Leaders

Understand the true cost and effort behind initiatives and roadmap items.

Finance & Operations

Finally align engineering spend with business outcomes in a transparent way.

The future of engineering intelligence is financial transparency

Engineering is no longer a black box.
With Resource Allocation, leaders can finally match effort, cost, and strategy in one view.

This is not just another report, it is the foundation for better planning, faster decisions, and a stronger relationship between engineering and the business.

UX Changes

Missing data?

We placed the Data Check in the sidebar menu, so you can easily reach it if you notice any discrepancies.

Benchmarks

You can now easily see the benchmarks for the industry and your company for all of our metrics. 

Dark Version 

Click your profile name in the bottom-left corner, then use the toggle switch in the dropdown to enable dark mode.

Performance Tab View

The Performance Tab in Team Insights now highlights key metrics, offering a clear view of Delivery and Health.

Applications = Projects

“Applications,” our previous way of grouping multiple repositories, teams, and boards, is now named “Projects.”

Updated Metrics

We updated our metric names: while formulas and metrics remain unchanged, the names have been updated (e.g., Knowledge Sharing Index is now KSI).

Launching soon

Usage Analytics

Check the usage of Waydev directly in the platform, seeing who logs in and if your users are active.

Company Insights

Gain insights at both the company and project level to better understand your organization’s overall health.

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