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Bizzabo boosted R&D innovation 95%

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Results Achieved

95%
Increase in Pull Request Throughput
54%
Decrease in Pull Request Size
76%
Decrease in Cycle Time

The Challenge

  • Boaz Katz, Bizzabo’s technical co-founder, was tasked with leading the engineering department and measuring the ROI of R&D.
  • Leadership wanted clarity on whether the engineering team was operating as efficiently as it should.
  • Boaz believed the team was highly efficient and wanted to prove it to leadership and set an example for other teams.
  • Coming from a product background, Boaz researched best practices for measuring engineering speed, including planning vs. execution, burndown charts, story points, and time estimates.
  • None of the traditional measurements gave him a clear or reliable answer.
  • He discovered that engineering as a discipline lacked trustworthy, objective metrics.
  • Boaz struggled to correlate performance with existing measurements—sometimes sprints felt slow even when targets were met.

    • Our Solution

  • Boaz adopted Velocity because it measures engineering speed using concrete, objective metrics.
  • With a team standard around small Pull Requests, Velocity’s metrics provided an accurate measure of output.
  • By reviewing Pull Requests Merged per team, Boaz confirmed his R&D team was one of the fastest in the company.
  • Velocity gave the team visibility into their strengths while also revealing opportunities to improve efficiency.
  • Sharing metrics with the team encouraged positive work habits across individuals, teams, and the organization.
  • The team developed a “winning attitude” and became motivated to find ways to accelerate further.
  • Within the first year of using Velocity, the R&D team increased their Pull Request Throughput by 95%.

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    “I tried everything in the industry: planning vs. execution, burndown charts, story points, time estimation. Finally, Velocity opened my mind.”
    —Boaz Katz, Co-founder and Chief Data Officer, Bizzabo

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