Waydev or Pluralsight Flow (ex GitPrime)? This article provides a comparative analysis and helps you decide which one is suitable for your team.
When an engineering team scales, you start losing visibility:
Even though you start losing grip, you need to meet deadlines, deliver value, and continuously boost your team’s productivity. This is when you might want to dive into Git Analytics tools, such as Waydev or Pluralsight Flow (ex GitPrime), to regain a clear picture over your team’s output. It’s easy to grasp the things these tools do, but how will you interpret the data, and what decisions will you make based on it?
To help you choose the decision that is the best fit for your needs, we created a comparative analysis of the most popular Git Analytics tools: Waydev and Pluralsight Flow (ex GitPrime). Below, we’ve put together a brief table of contents for this article so you can skip to the part you are interested in.
You have probably gone through tens of registration processes before, so this shouldn’t be too demanding for you. As soon as the data has been imported, you are into action.
Set up your Waydev account by signing into your GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps account and authorizing Waydev’s access. Choose the repositories you want Waydev to analyze and then click the ‘Load Project’ button.
Pluralsight Flow’s setup is much the same as Waydev’s setup. Select your data provider, authorize access, and check the repos for Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) to analyze.
Waydev provides integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and their on-premise counterparts. The access can be granted through OAuth or Personal Access Tokens. Waydev also allows SSO integrations through Okta and offers an API.
Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) supports mainly similar integrations, besides Azure DevOps. It additionally supports Jira integrations.
The data span of Waydev and Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) is much the same. The difference lies in the insights they focus on.
Waydev’s focus is evenly distributed across the code-level metrics and the code review process. They discovered a way the code review process can be quantified into actionable metrics, which can enhance an engineering manager’s visibility over his team collaborative activity. These insights can be used to spot a blocked pull request, incentivize engineers to collaborate more or adjust the workload.
Waydev’s code-level metrics are directly related to engineering productivity, while the code review process is quantified in collaborative metrics. Some examples of the metrics are:
Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) started by importing the data from Git, processing code-level data only. This practice enabled integration with multiple tools, such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, but the code review workflow insights were narrow. They released a collaborative work package that is not entirely integrated into the reports.
Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) offers its particular collection of metrics, such as:
Both Waydev and Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) offer a comprehensive view over project and engineer stats via dashboards that track performance evolution over the timeframe of choice.
This is what Git Analytics does. It searches through hundreds of repositories to provide you with valuable insights, insights that would have taken hours to collect, input, process, analyze, and create a report from.
Waydev has three performance benchmarking tools:
Pluralsight Flow’s performance benchmarking tools include:
Waydev draws attention to both engineer-related and work-related issues, while Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) focuses mostly on engineer-related problems, such as a problematic or stuck engineer.
Engineering teams are continuously expected to deliver value to the business, but a bottleneck could ruin an entire team’s momentum during a sprint. When the teams start scaling, you begin losing visibility regarding issues. To help you overcome this issue, Waydev and Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) came up with a new approach for the process of spotting unhealthy work patterns and outliers.
Waydev offers a wide array of features that help you gain a better view of potential issues:
Pluralsight Flow’s Starter plan links issues to contributors, allowing the management to see who is responsible for something that might have gone wrong. The collaborative work reports show insights for problematic pull requests, but they are not available in the Starter plan.
To find inefficiencies, bottlenecks, or other potential issues, you need to look at:
Waydev is the clear winner regarding customization options, offering custom reports and role access personalization, while Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) offers a brief Targets tab and an API which enables users to build out their own reports.
Waydev offers filtering by teams, repositories, and the selected period, which can go back up to 18 months. You can opt in to receive weekly and monthly reports which contain insights about your team’s Impact, work focus, and many others. These reports can be viewed and downloaded through the Reports History tab.
Waydev provides Role Management and Stats Management features, which you can use to provide your users with custom access to custom features. For example, you can create a new role called ‘C-Level Executive’ and grant him access only to the Dashboard.
The Stats Management feature enables you to grant custom permissions for users to view the Dashboard, to receive email reports, and to view repository activity by checking/ unchecking the boxes corresponding to the team/ repository.
Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) doesn’t have a customizable platform, but they have an API integrated into the Enterprise plan for customers that have the resources to create their reports. They also have a Targets tab, where users can fill out several simple targets.
The pricing plans of Waydev and Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) differ significantly. Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) restricts many of its features in their Standard plan, while Waydev offers more features for less than Pluralsight Flow’s Standard plan.
Waydev has two pricing tiers:
Waydev wants to provide its customers with excellent quality at fair pricing, so if you wish to receive a custom offer, make sure to contact them, as they are flexible regarding users who require a high number of licenses.
Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) also offers two pricing plans:
Waydev created a balance between code-level analytics and code review metrics, aiming to provide engineering leaders with a complete view of their team’s activity. Waydev is also more flexible regarding:
Pluralsight Flow (ex Gitprime) offers an individual performance view of the team, which is oriented towards hands-on engineering managers.
Both products offer a trial. You can sign up for Waydev’s here.
Myles Henaghan, CTO @Accordo Group Ltd.: Now that we can measure, we can manage.
The app immediately cuts to the chase and gives you a snapshot of how the team is performing.
We are very happy with Waydev and the team behind it. For years, I have struggled to find an unbiased, low friction way to keep a pulse on developer productivity.
Waydev closes off a big piece of this puzzle. Used in conjunction with other information, we have a 360-degree view and understanding of how the team is performing, as well as a benchmark for good > great.”
Jorge del Rio, CTO @Wiggot: “Very good to evaluate your team’s performance. The feature to calculate the performance of the team versus previous sprints are awesome. Also, you can easily identify if the role of your engineers is according to the job done.
I was trying to understand how my team was performing during the development of new products so I can improve my estimates. Usually refactoring and bug fixing of previous features slow down new ones. With Waydev I was able to identify why the new development was delayed and how much time my engineers spent on the rework of old code.”
David Camargo, VP of Engineering @Instaleap: “Good tool to understand your team dynamics. Waydev has proved to be a very useful tool for me to understand how my team is performing. I use it as part of the feedback on 1-1 meetings, and it helps me to provide feedback valuable to developers and ask questions about certain trends shown on their code. It’s really easy to use and I practically don’t need to do anything to use it.”
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