Jellyfish
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Jellyfish is a powerful tool for Engineering team insights
What do you like best about the product?
Jellyfish (JF) gives you a LOT of data and insights into your teams. While much of this data is available in source tools like Jira or Github, JF makes it very easy to get aggregated information, extrapolations, and insights gleaned from their algorithms and combined metrics. We also use the Cost Capitalization module which is game-changing for our Engineering teams. We get most of the Cost Capitalization data/reports for "free." The Cost Capitalization module has meant our Fiance teams don't need to bother Engineering teams to get Cost Capitalization data (time spent on projects, etc), respond to audits, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a dislike, but an acknowledgment of "garbage in, garbage out". For JF to become useful, your team's processes and data practices need to be clean. If Jira data is incomplete, Jira or Github practices spotty or inconsistent, then the information in JF will be poor. A powerful effect of adopting JF has been a concerted effort to clean up our data and processes. It can't be understated the amplification effect in JF if your source data in Jira nd Github are poor. While it's been a heavy lift to clean up data/processes, it's been a significant benefit across our Engineering teams that extends well beyond just JF.
One challenge in JF itself is its learning curve. It can be a complex product and requires commitment and consistent adoption to see value. But if you're willing to work to clean data and learn the ins and outs of the tool, it is very powerful and valuable. More/better training resources and some UX changes could make it more intuitive and easy to pick up quickly.
One challenge in JF itself is its learning curve. It can be a complex product and requires commitment and consistent adoption to see value. But if you're willing to work to clean data and learn the ins and outs of the tool, it is very powerful and valuable. More/better training resources and some UX changes could make it more intuitive and easy to pick up quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jellyfish (JF) provides a lot of easy to see metrics and insights that used to take us a lot of time, forensics, data processing to get before JF. It's difficult to quantify Engineering effectiveness. There is no single metric, piece of data, or silver bullet to tell you how an Engineering team is doing and if it's effective, productive, or healthy. Where are teams feeling pain? Do we have bottlenecks? Are we being efficient? These are notoriously difficult not only to measure but to interpret and act upon. JF's super power is giving us fast, easy access to a lot of data points that let's us spot trends -- but then has the ability to double click and drill into areas we have questions.
Awesome tool for tracking project split and finding inefficiencies with sprint plannings
What do you like best about the product?
UI is great - easy to use and understand, and tickets/projects/teams are imported from our ticket management system, so everything is consistent.
What do you dislike about the product?
The import process for first time initialization could be better - there were quite a few duplicated entries from JIRA projects/tickets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a clear picture of how our efforts are spent during product development and the planning process. Jellyfish provides a central place to analyze and visualize related data.
Powerful Insights to Guide Decision Making
What do you like best about the product?
I have been using Jellyfish now for several years. It opens up a plethora of insights that had historically been difficult to compile. This information unlocks much more powerful decision making capabilities. My teams use it to retrospect and make continuous improvements. The deliverables views also deliver as close to ground truth as possible on the status of your company initiatives. All around great product.
What do you dislike about the product?
Any time I have an issue or feature request the Jellyfish team is very responsive. They are continuously delivering new and powerful features. Most recently my teams have benefitted from the new Life Cycle feature. It provides great, actionable detail into the software development lifecycle.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Jellyfish to confirm our actual work allocation is in line with company objectives, our teams use the team-based metrics for retrospectives and reviews, and we use the deliverables views for ground truth on the status of our key company initiatives.
Software Capitalization Campion
What do you like best about the product?
The platform's ease of use, simplicity and smoothness and the only platform I have used that does software capitalization cost really well.
From an accounting point of view, managing projects in JIRA while trying to assign engineer costs to each project accurately has been a headache. Jellyfish has been a breath of fresh air. It takes away all the formulas and spreadsheet work of tracking time/cost and has helped improve our team's efficiency, allowing us to report accurate monthly costs.
Customer support has been very impressive as well as timely releases of platform improvements and updates!
From an accounting point of view, managing projects in JIRA while trying to assign engineer costs to each project accurately has been a headache. Jellyfish has been a breath of fresh air. It takes away all the formulas and spreadsheet work of tracking time/cost and has helped improve our team's efficiency, allowing us to report accurate monthly costs.
Customer support has been very impressive as well as timely releases of platform improvements and updates!
What do you dislike about the product?
While the platform becomes better, I think a better/automated way to capture employee compensation and add new employees to the system would improve the overall user experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jellyfish is solving the way we calculate software capitalization cost without the use of timesheets. Having the platform do all the calculations for us frees time and allows management to focus on other importing problems.
Insightful & Powerful tool for self and management
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent ability to get the details about project allocation/work for self & the team, which is very easy for management to track.
Its integration with JIRA, Bitbucket, Github and other engineering tools provides the ability to get the details about both deep and high-level work.
Its integration with JIRA, Bitbucket, Github and other engineering tools provides the ability to get the details about both deep and high-level work.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel that Metrics are not appropriately used, they can be easily abused.
It would be great if there would be some metrics in future added in jellyfish for Code commits.
It would be great if there would be some metrics in future added in jellyfish for Code commits.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integration with JIRA and other tools makes the job easier to track down day-to-day tasks and helps in improving the productivity by selecting important task/ work on priority basis.
Very useful for monitoring daily work
What do you like best about the product?
I find Jellyfish very useful when it comes to tracking all the work, it's amazing all the details it shows about what you have in Jira. In my case I use it a lot to see week by week what we have worked on, category, ticket work cycles, number of revisions, pages created in confluence. In short, it is a very necessary tool that makes it easier to control and manage your work.
Update: After more than one year since my last review I can confirm that Jellyfish continues helping me to track all the tasks managed by my team. The section I consult the most is the Team & Unit Dashboard to measure the efforts per week in detail.
Update 2:I still think it's a great tool for tracking the tasks my team performs and seeing where there is room for improvement.
Update: After more than one year since my last review I can confirm that Jellyfish continues helping me to track all the tasks managed by my team. The section I consult the most is the Team & Unit Dashboard to measure the efforts per week in detail.
Update 2:I still think it's a great tool for tracking the tasks my team performs and seeing where there is room for improvement.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far nothing serious, I don't think I have explored all the potential that Jellyfish have. Almost every time I have had a question or wanted to consult some data, a colleague or the person who manages it has helped me.
Update: I still think the same as I said more than a year ago, I still have a lot to discover about Jellyfish, but I have no complaints about what I use on a daily basis.
Update 2: Maybe I need more information about all the characteristics of the jellyfish for the moment I didn't find anything I don't like in the use I give to it
Update: I still think the same as I said more than a year ago, I still have a lot to discover about Jellyfish, but I have no complaints about what I use on a daily basis.
Update 2: Maybe I need more information about all the characteristics of the jellyfish for the moment I didn't find anything I don't like in the use I give to it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Above all, it helps me to keep track of which business categories we are working on.
Clear information on engineering team spent time for different projects or maintenance
What do you like best about the product?
The main goal is accomplished: providing view on the time spent by engineering between the different projects and especially the balance between new features and support/maintenance.
We've been able in a year to categorize almost all of time to a specific project or to support and KTLO (Keep The Lights On) and that's really helpful to see how much time this support to customer or maintenance and technical debt included in KTLO are representing.
We've been able in a year to categorize almost all of time to a specific project or to support and KTLO (Keep The Lights On) and that's really helpful to see how much time this support to customer or maintenance and technical debt included in KTLO are representing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The setup and the repetitive tasks of taking screenshots could be improved.
Obviously the data needs to be accurate as well and that takes a lot of time but this part is not specific to Jellyfish.
Obviously the data needs to be accurate as well and that takes a lot of time but this part is not specific to Jellyfish.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finding the balance between time spent on new features and on support and maintenance. It helped us allocating better engineering resources and finding out where there were maybe too much customer issues impacting the engineering to develop new features.
Get good insight on productivity to set the pace and predicting time to completion
What do you like best about the product?
Good insights on the team productivity. It can help to be informed about the team's performance so we know when we are doing well or struggling completing tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Going to the JellyFish interface causes a great distraction from the usual dev cycle. It would be more helpful to have it at my fingertips so I don't have to switch contexts to look at the reports.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gives insight into the average cycle times for tickets and provides a cross-team relative performance. Helps to alert us to look deeper at dwindling agility which could indicate that reestimation or outside help is required to solve the problem.
An amazing tool to drive alignment and continuous improvement
What do you like best about the product?
I have used jellyfish for more than a year and a half. Over time, the platform has consistently exceeded expectations, providing valuable insights, fostering autonomy, and ensuring alignment with business goals. It has become an indispensable tool for driving high performance in engineering teams.
Jellyfish's operational metrics feature is a game-changer, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement. It empowers teams to back discussions with factual data, driving positive change and constant improvement.
Jellyfish excels at aligning engineering efforts with business priorities. Communicating key metrics to stakeholders ensures a focused approach that contributes to product strategy and company direction.
Jellyfish's user-friendly interface and customizable reporting enhance effective communication. It's a pleasure to navigate, providing access to the information we need.
In summary, Jellyfish is a transformative tool for engineering teams. With evolving features, it continuously adds value, offering insights, autonomy, and alignment. As a long-term user, I wholeheartedly recommend Jellyfish for organizations seeking to excel and evolve their engineering teams.
Jellyfish's operational metrics feature is a game-changer, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement. It empowers teams to back discussions with factual data, driving positive change and constant improvement.
Jellyfish excels at aligning engineering efforts with business priorities. Communicating key metrics to stakeholders ensures a focused approach that contributes to product strategy and company direction.
Jellyfish's user-friendly interface and customizable reporting enhance effective communication. It's a pleasure to navigate, providing access to the information we need.
In summary, Jellyfish is a transformative tool for engineering teams. With evolving features, it continuously adds value, offering insights, autonomy, and alignment. As a long-term user, I wholeheartedly recommend Jellyfish for organizations seeking to excel and evolve their engineering teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Jellyfish constantly evolve to add more value, one area could use improvement. Occasionally, the graph's color palette changes between versions without any apparent reason. This inconsistency can be a bit confusing and disrupt the user experience. It would be beneficial if the color scheme remained consistent to provide a more cohesive and familiar interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Jellyfish's operational metrics feature provides valuable insights into team performance, addressing the problem of making decisions based sentiments
- it empowers engineering teams by providing tools for tracking and analyzing metrics, allowing them to take ownership of their work and make more autonomous decisions.
- Jellyfish also helps on the alignment side. it makes the engineering efforts visible, and we can see if they align with the business goals.
- it empowers engineering teams by providing tools for tracking and analyzing metrics, allowing them to take ownership of their work and make more autonomous decisions.
- Jellyfish also helps on the alignment side. it makes the engineering efforts visible, and we can see if they align with the business goals.
Excellent reporting, project, delivery, metric and CAPACITY PLANNING tool!!
What do you like best about the product?
This is a must have for Scrum Masters, Engineering Managers, Project/Program Managers and software Finance.
As a Scrum Master, I used, on a daily basis, sprint reporting, deliverables & metrics pages in JellyFish.
And at a project/program level, the new Capacity Planner (currently in Alpha roll-out) is a major game-changer!
For Finance, it is a great solution for Software Capitalization and also spend-tracking per project based on FTEs and the great tracking algorithms that touch not only on Jira but also Git - as well as other software.
As a Scrum Master, I used, on a daily basis, sprint reporting, deliverables & metrics pages in JellyFish.
And at a project/program level, the new Capacity Planner (currently in Alpha roll-out) is a major game-changer!
For Finance, it is a great solution for Software Capitalization and also spend-tracking per project based on FTEs and the great tracking algorithms that touch not only on Jira but also Git - as well as other software.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how the Deliver pages are split between Deliverables In-Progress and Completed Deliverables. It requires that I have to do 2 pulls of data and combine them into 1 spreadsheet when doing calculations that span a timeframe. I feel like that should be an optional setting so I can grab everything I need in 1 pull.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to visualize where the epic deliverables are. It helps a lot with visualizing metrics and allocations. It is integral with tracking software capitalization and monitoring spend against contracts using FTE numbers on each epic.
The new capacity planner is so easy to use and will be a game-change for project/program level management and even Engineering Managers for quarterly/yearly planning.
The new capacity planner is so easy to use and will be a game-change for project/program level management and even Engineering Managers for quarterly/yearly planning.
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