Metrics Community Benchmarks
Updated 2 months ago
Metrics Community Benchmarks
The LinearB Engineering Metrics Benchmarks were created from a study of 1,971 dev teams and 847k branches. For the first time since DORA published their research in 2014, engineering teams are able to benchmark their performance against data-backed industry standards. Continue reading to learn more about our data collection and metric calculations here. We define 4 categories of quality:
Green - Elite - Top 10% of the LinearB community
Blue - Strong - 11 - 30% of the LinearB community
Orange - Fair - 31 - 60% of the LinearB community
Red - Needs Focus: Bottom 40% of the LinearB Community
Elite | Strong | Fair | Needs Focus | |
Cycle Time | < 48 hours | 49 - 118 | 119 - 209 | 210+ |
Coding Time | < 12 hours | 12 - 24 | 24 - 38 | 39+ |
Pickup Time | < 7 hours | 7 - 12 | 12 - 18 | 19+ |
Review Time | < 6 hours | 6 - 13 | 13 - 28 | 29+ |
Deploy Time | < 4 hours | 4 - 48 | 2 - 7 days | 8+ days |
Deployment Frequency | Daily + | > 1 per week | 1 per week | < 1 per week |
PR Size (number of code changes | <225 | 225 - 400 | 400 - 800 | 800+ |
Rework Rate | < 8% | 8 - 11% | 11 - 14% | 15%+ |
Planning Accuracy | > 80% | 65 - 79% | 40 - 64% | < 40% |
Where to see your benchmarks
Benchmark indicators are visible on team dashboards as well as in Metrics reports. The main team dashboard will show your overall cycle-time against LinearB's benchmarks. You can see benchmark performance against individual portions of cycle time as well as other metrics
Dashboard View
When enabled a benchmark icon will appear next to the cycle-time metric in a team dashboard.
Metrics Report View
Metrics reports allow you to see your team performance against benchmarks on a metric by metric level. You can even combine multiple teams in a metrics dashboard and see the average performance of the teams against LinearB benchmarks. LinearB benchmarks are available on the following metrics.
- Cycle Time
- Coding Time
- Pickup Time
- Review time
- Deploy Time
- Deploy Frequency
- PR Size
- Rework Rate
Enabling and disabling benchmarks
We understand that benchmarks won't apply or be constructive for all teams. To disable the benchmarks icons for a specific team, go to Team Settings -> General to switch off Engineering Metrics Benchmarks. Make sure to click Save after disabling benchmarks.
