Company Updates

Code Climate has supported thousands of engineering teams of all sizes over the past decade, enhancing team health, advancing DevOps practices, and providing visibility into engineering processes. According to Gartner®, the Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform market is expanding as engineering leaders increasingly leverage these platforms to enhance productivity and drive business value. As pioneers in the SEI space, the Code Climate team has identified three key takeaways from partnerships with our Fortune 100 customers:

1. Engineering Metrics Are Not Enough
   • Engineering leaders that adopt a Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform without a proper SEI strategy fail to extract value from the data
     
   • Engineering leaders that adopt quantitative metrics without qualitative measures are missing the full picture
2. Hands-Off Approach Falls Short
   • Approaching an SEI platform as a traditional turnkey SaaS product does not ensure team success
     
   • Organizations that lack collaboration with an SEI solutions provider often struggle to drive adoption and understanding of engineering insights
     
3. Insights Alone Do Not Drive Outcomes
   • Engineering leaders often struggle to translate insights from an SEI platform into actionable steps
     
   • Engineering leaders often struggle to align engineering performance to meaningful business outcomes
     

Empowering Engineering Leaders at Enterprise Organizations

The above takeaways have prompted a strategic shift in Code Climate’s roadmap, now centered on enterprise organizations with complex engineering team structure and workflows. As part of this transition, our flagship Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform, Velocity, is now replaced by an enhanced SEI platform, custom-designed for each leader and their organization. With enterprise-level scalability, Code Climate provides senior engineering leaders complete autonomy over their SEI platform, seamlessly integrating into their workflows while delivering the customization, flexibility, and reliability needed to tackle business challenges.

Moreover, we understand that quantitative metrics from a data platform alone cannot transform an organization, which is why Code Climate is now a Software Engineering Intelligence Solutions Partner—offering five key characteristics that define our approach

1. Tailored Solutions: We provide engineering solutions via quantitative insights and qualitative workshops that are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of enterprise engineering teams—moving beyond standard, black-box solutions.
2. Strategic Collaboration: We enable our enterprise customers to build an SEI strategy, engaging with key stakeholders to align Code Climate’s solution and services with their broader business goals.
3. Long-Term Partnership: Our strategic partnership with our enterprise customers is typically ongoing, focusing on long-term value rather than offering a standard insights platform. As an enterprise-level SEI solutions partner, we are invested in the sustained success of our customers.
4. Expert Guidance: We offer expert guidance and actionable recommendations to help our enterprise customers navigate challenges, optimize performance, and achieve business goals.
5. End-to-End Support: We provide comprehensive services, from advisory support and implementation to ongoing support and optimization.

A Message from the New CEO of Code Climate

"During my time at Pivotal Software, Inc., I met with hundreds of engineering executives who consistently asked, “How do I improve my software engineering organization?” These conversations revealed a universal challenge: aligning engineering efforts with business goals. I joined Code Climate because I'm passionate about helping enterprise organizations address these critical questions with actionable insights and data-driven strategies that empower engineering executives to drive meaningful change." - Josh Knowles, CEO of Code Climate

Ready to make data-driven engineering decisions to maximize business impact? Request a consultation.

Today, we’re excited to share that Code Climate Quality has been spun out into a new company: Qlty Software. Code Climate is now focused entirely on its next phase of Velocity, our Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) solution for enterprise organizations

How It Started

I founded Code Climate in 2011 to help engineering teams level up with data. Our initial Quality product was a pioneer for automated code review, helping developers merge with confidence by bringing maintainability and code coverage metrics into the developer workflow.

Our second product, Velocity, was launched in 2018 as the first Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform to deliver insights about the people and processes in the end-to-end software development lifecycle.

All the while, we’ve been changing the way modern software gets built. Quality is reviewing code written by tens of thousands of engineers, and Velocity is helping Fortune 500 companies drive engineering transformation as they adopt AI-enabled workflows.

Today, Quality and Velocity serve different types of software engineering organizations, and we are investing heavily in each product for their respective customers.

Where We're Going

To serve both groups better, we’re branching out into two companies. We’re thrilled to introduce Qlty Software, and to focus Code Climate on software engineering intelligence.

Over the past year, we’ve made more significant upgrades to Quality and our SEI platform, Velocity, than ever before. Much of that is limited early access, and we’ll have a lot to share publicly soon. As separate companies, each can double down on their products.

Qlty Software is dedicated to taking the toil out of code maintenance. The new company name represents our commitment to code quality. We’ve launched a new domain, with a brand new, enhanced edition of the Quality product.

I’m excited to be personally moving into the CEO role of Qlty Software to lead this effort. Josh Knowles, Code Climate’s General Manager, will take on the role of CEO of Code Climate, guiding the next chapter as an SEI solutions partner for technology leaders at large, complex organizations.

We believe the future of developer tools to review and improve code automatically is brighter than ever – from command line tools accelerating feedback loops to new, AI-powered workflows – and we’re excited to be on that journey with you.

-Bryan
CEO, Qlty Software

Code Climate’s Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform, Velocity, has been recognized by engineering leaders as a top platform in G2’s ranking of Software Development Analytics Tools. G2 is the world's most trusted software marketplace, and our ranking is based on reviews from engineering leaders who use Velocity to gain critical visibility into their SDLC and improve delivery and team health across their organizations. Code Climate earned two badges as a leader in the overall and Americas categories.

Here’s what people are saying.

"View your entire org. and identify challenges in five minutes a day"

“As organizations scale, it can be extremely hard for executives and leadership to understand which teams are impacted or blocked. Large organizations make it impossible and highly unproductive to spend much time in code reviews, PR reviews, or in standups, nor is it a smart use of time. Code Climate provides an easy-to-digest overview of team health, allowing you to identify which teams may be blocked and then focus on specific areas to unblock them.

Code Climate has been the single most valuable tool in my toolbelt through multiple companies and roles, and I would recommend it to any leader at an organization of any size."

— G2 Review, Ben N.

"Unprecedented levels of insights and visibility into engineering"

"Code Climate shows me the activity happening in the engineering organization and allows me to tie it into other activity and outcomes happening in other systems very easily. This allows me to have clear indicators of things like blockers or slowdowns that can receive intervention much earlier, and shows me patterns in team or organizational behavior that I can address managerially."

— G2 Review, Anonymous

Software Development Analytics Tools and SEI Platforms

As defined by G2, Software Development Analytics Tools, which include Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platforms, provide high-level insights into development progress using historical data. They allow engineering managers and leaders to see information about bottlenecks, engineering progress, what areas of code get the most attention, trends, and more to help teams improve efficiency and code quality.

To qualify for inclusion in G2’s Software Development Analytics Tools category, a product must:

• Integrate with one or more code repositories
• Consolidate a development team’s historical progress data in one place
• Highlight trends, important statistics, and KPIs

Code Climate Velocity meets these criteria and more. Velocity maximizes engineering impact for all levels at large organizations by providing data-driven visibility into engineering teams’ capacity, delivery, quality, culture, costs, and progress toward key goals. Velocity uses trusted and actionable insights to enable engineering and DevOps teams to drive change, improve predictability, and deliver business impact in a single platform.

Hear from more Code Climate users or leave your own review on our G2 page.

For the third consecutive quarter, Code Climate’s Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform, Velocity, has been recognized by engineering leaders as a top platform in G2’s ranking of Software Development Analytics Tools.

With substantial Satisfaction and Market Presence scores, Code Climate Velocity has earned Leader badges in both the Software Development Analytics Tools overall Grid® Report and Mid-Market Grid® Report, based on reviews from real Velocity users from companies with 51-1,000 employees, like this one:

“Code Climate Velocity gives me a great view into what my engineering team is doing and where we're losing cycles. It has really helped us get the whole engineering team optimizing throughput. Once you have things moving through the system quickly you can point the system at the right problems." — G2 Review, Anonymous

Velocity provides engineering leaders with unparalleled visibility into how their teams are working and every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Here’s what Guillermo Montes, Engeering Manager at AyalaCare is achieving with Velocity’s insights:

"It's a really powerful development insights tool. The reality is that the limit is what you decide to do with the data and how to build on top of it, cross-referencing activity Velocity crunches from GitHub with what's available in Jira can lead to some rather interesting reports. Although there's plenty of reports available, there are a few favorites that we rely on for our engineering KPIs, and the Analytics module is the ultimate resource to fall back to." — Guillermo Montes, Engineering Manager at AlayaCare

Hear from more Code Climate users or leave your own review on our G2 page.

Code Climate is proud to have once again earned Leader and Leader Mid-Market badges from G2, the most trusted software software marketplace and the largest in the world.

In G2’s Best Results Spring 2023 ranking, Code Climate Velocity has been named #1 in with the highest overall Results rating for G2's Software Development Analytics Tools Results Index.

For the second quarter in a row, Code Climate Velocity ranked #1 for G2's Mid-Market Grid® Report for Software Development Analytics Tools, having been highly rated by G2 users and our customers, and earning substantial Satisfaction and Market Presence scores.

Velocity also ranked #2 for G2's Grid® Report for Software Development Analytics Tools for the second quarter in a row.

Who We Are

With Velocity, our flagship Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI) platform, Code Climate has helped thousands of engineering organizations improve their team health and DevOps, and align with the strategic priorities of their businesses.

Our platform provides the strongest process and team health insights of any tool on the market, including a year’s worth of historical data, resource allocation insights, benchmarks, and the ability to add context to key reports.

Our customers are prominent and visionary organizations, and our enterprise-ready platform has the scaling and security features required by startups and Fortune 500 companies alike.

What engineers are saying about Velocity

“I use Velocity every sprint. I can track my own performance; it's great for my own reviews when it comes to being able to track what I've done and how I'm compared against my prior attempts." — Andrew Brown, Software Engineer II, EverQuote

What leaders are saying about Velocity

“The cost of extracting and crunching software engineering metrics is sometimes prohibitive. Tools like Code Climate Velocity provide you with this ability with a small configuration effort and a very flexible reporting and analytics tool for a fair price. Furthermore, Code Climate Velocity helps you educate your management team with metrics important for managing software engineering teams.” — Thiago R., Director of Engineering, RD Station

“Code Climate Velocity has been a great addition to our software development process. It has helped us identify and address potential issues early on, saving us time and resources in the long run. The ability to enforce coding standards and best practices has also been crucial in maintaining a maintainable and easy-to-work-with codebase. The user-friendly interface and customization options have made it easy for us to track our progress and tailor the experience to our needs. While there is always room for improvement, we have found that Code Climate Velocity is a valuable tool for managers looking to optimize their team's productivity and success.” — Pedro C., Engineering Lead

For more testimonials or to leave your own review of Velocity, visit our G2 page.

Velocity’s Incidents API gives the most accurate data on interruptions so you can investigate why outages happen and work to improve your teams’ response.

Failures and outages happen, even to the highest performing engineering teams. These unplanned interruptions might require developers to stop what they’re working on and pivot to problem-solving. If left unresolved, incidents can slow down delivery and become a financial burden on organizations.

The key to avoiding significant interruptions caused by incidents is to collect real-time data and analyze incident trends over time. Digging into your team’s incident-related data can help you understand whether your processes are effective in identifying, diagnosing, and solving issues.

Sourcing Accurate Data

Code Climate Velocity’s new Incidents API allows users to send incident data to Velocity to calculate the two incident related DORA metrics, Change Failure and Mean Time to Recovery, to help leaders get a better handle on interruptions and understand how long it takes for a team or an application to get to resolution. This is in addition to our Jira incident source, which allows customers to set a board and/or issue type for Velocity to consider as an “incident.”

Through Velocity’s Incidents API, users can push incident data from any tool they use, like PagerDuty and Opsgenie, into Velocity to calculate incident metrics. Customers can configure Incidents on the Applications settings page in Velocity.

Putting Metrics Into Context

In Velocity's Analytics, users can view DORA metrics alongside other key engineering metrics — such as Change Failure Rate alongside Unreviewed PRs — and assess how incidents impact the team. By placing this data into context, leaders can get a more precise picture of team health and processes.

Failure in production and delays in new features can mean dissatisfied end-users, so the key is to find a balance between shipping code frequently and maintaining high code quality.

Defining Your Goals

The top performing engineering teams can claim these benchmarks when it comes to incident-related metrics:

• Mean Time to Recovery (referred to as Time to Restore Service by the DORA group) of less than one day
• Change Failure Rate between 0-15%

By focusing on these specific metrics and establishing goals for each, engineering leaders can redefine priorities and make real progress towards enhanced delivery and higher overall performance, and understand if your team is striking the right balance between the speed of development and ensuring the delivery of high quality code.

Why Velocity Calculations Are the Most Actionable

By pulling in actual customer incident and deploy data from Jira and other tools via our Incidents API, Velocity’s solution accurately calculates the four DORA metrics. Many EMPs rely on proxy data rather than true incident data, which can be inaccurate and error-prone. Actual incident data will give you a true understanding of your teams’ incident response health.

Speak with a Velocity product specialist and learn how to get a clear picture of your engineering practices through Velocity's Analytics module.

At Code Climate, we value collaboration and growth, and strive for greatness within our product and workplace. For us, this means fostering a supportive, challenging, people-first culture.

Thanks to an emphasis on these values, we’ve earned spots on three of Built In’s 2023 Best Places to Work awards lists, including New York City Best Startups to Work For, New York City Best Places to Work, and U.S. Best Startups to Work For.

This annual awards program recognizes tech companies across the United States, including startups and enterprises. Awards are based on compensation, benefits, and highly searched-for offerings on the Built In platform, like DEI initiatives, flexible work opportunities, and support for professional development.

We work hard to make Code Climate a great place to work, and we’re honored to be on Built In’s lists for the second year in a row. Here’s what employees have to say about why they love working at Code Climate.

Support and collaboration are key

The culture is collaborative, and everyone is encouraged to do their best work. There is a strong focus on enablement and supporting everyone to run with all of their ideas — even if they have never been done before. — Addison LeBeau, Customer Marketing Manager

Our organization is very flat so I feel comfortable reaching out to anyone with a question or concern, from our salespeople to our CEO. — Mike Koeneke, Senior Product Manager

We challenge each other and ourselves to grow

I joined Code Climate because I was seeking a challenging yet fun environment that would push me to grow my technical acumen and operating knowledge. It hasn’t disappointed, and I love that the work environment encourages autonomy, experimentation, and professional development. — Glenn Rothwell, Director of Sales Development

In project work, I feel like I am empowered to take on exciting challenges and learn new things. — Sam Dallas, Senior Software Engineer

We’re building something great together

What I enjoy most about Code Climate is getting to work with an amazing group of talented and passionate coworkers to build innovative products and solve complex problems for our customers. We have a unique opportunity to make an impact across technology departments big and small, helping them move faster and build better products. — Madison Unell, Senior Product Manager

I love our product; as a software engineer it’s a dream being able to build tools to empower other engineers and organizations. Such a privilege. — Javier Murillo, Software Engineer

The people make the place

Each employee truly enjoys what they do and are always willing to help out when you need it. On our in-person days I walk into the office and am surrounded by a great group of people! —Amanda McLaughlin, Employee Experience Generalist

Everyone at Code Climate is delightful. I feel supported in my career and challenged through my work. Our customers are also fantastic! — Jilly Chen, Manager, Solutions Consulting

Code Climate is like my second family. I’ve never felt more comfortable to be myself andto really be able to excel at my work. — Kevin Blackwell, Sales Engineer

Learn more about working at Code Climate and view our open roles.

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G2, the world’s largest marketplace for software, just released their 2023 list of best software products.

Code Climate is proud to announce Velocity’s ranking as #1 in Software Development Analytics Tools in G2’s Mid-Market Grid (reviews from mid-size companies of 51-1,000 employees), and #2 for G2’s Grid® Report for Software Development Analytics Tools, earning us two Leader badges. Velocity has also ranked top-3 in five different reports for Winter 2023.

Our customers have recognized us as leaders in best-in-class software products and experiences. Our ranking is based on reviews from actual Code Climate customers who’ve used Velocity to successfully address pain points of their engineering teams.

Here’s what our customers are saying about Velocity:

“Velocity has enabled us to measure the effectiveness of process changes, as well as identify the operational bottlenecks that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. It helps us create key results by which we can measure the effectiveness of changes we make in our development cycles. We have identified methods of reducing our overall Cycle Time thanks to these insights.” — Ross Finkelstein, Director, Delivery at Wattpad

“The main problem that Code Climate is solving is how we can create a culture of continuous improvement within the organization. Velocity is helping us to streamline our code delivery, providing us with actionable metrics that our managerial team can use to set SMART goals for the engineering teams. We also like the customer success team that has been helping us. They have been very collaborative and supportive.” — Euclides F., Head of DevSecOps (LATAM)

For more testimonials or to leave your own review of Velocity, visit our G2 page.

Reporting key engineering data is an effective way for leaders to illustrate their teams’ progress. Whether you’re using engineering data in standups, retros, or presentations with stakeholders, these objective insights can help you align engineering goals with business goals and stay on track with delivery.

While engineering leaders benefit from viewing all of their team metrics within Velocity, other stakeholders will not always have access to the platform. Key collaborators have their own Business Intelligence tools, including Tableau and Power BI, that they prefer for viewing metrics and reports. Members of your organization even have custom reporting templates or other tried and trusted processes for viewing and analyzing data.

With Code Climate’s Metrics API, you don’t have to alter stakeholders’ existing processes: instead, you can extract metrics from Velocity into existing BI tools in order to build tailored reports across the organization, and communicate with outside parties on how engineering initiatives align with business outcomes to communicate upwards on progress.

With this tool, you can evaluate and measure your engineering team’s performance and business impact over time. Rather than keeping engineering data siloed, organizations can connect the dots and analyze engineering and business data together with the Metrics API.

What You Can Get Out of a Metrics API

By using Velocity’s Metrics API, you can improve transparency across teams, putting numbers into a context and environment that stakeholders are familiar with.

Metrics API allows users to leverage up to 365 days of historical data, making it possible to review trends month over month. If you’ve made organizational changes over the past year, such as hiring more developers, data can show how those changes have impacted the business.

How it Works

To start using Metrics API:

• Generate an API token within your page settings (for Velocity users with admin privileges).
• Use the token to create a GET request to pull data out of Velocity (the specific API token will not expire once created).
• Once you ingest Velocity data into your preferred BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) or Excel spreadsheets, you can analyze your team’s metrics together with your business data.
• Users cannot change, edit, or delete any of the metrics data pulled out of Velocity with Metrics API.

Who Can Use Metrics API?

Code Climate’s Metrics API allows organizations to export data from Velocity into any Business Intelligence tools they already use. This comprehensive tool is one of Velocity’s many robust API capabilities, allowing your organization to pull or extract, customize, and modify data specific to your needs.

Now that you can extract your Velocity data, you can connect engineering and business insights for more meaningful takeaways. Read our tips for CTO and CEO alignment, and learn why engineering metrics are business metrics.