Pamela FurstSenior Manager, Customer Success

Jellyfish Testimonial | ZoomInfo

Name: Jellyfish Testimonial | ZoomInfo
Uploaded: 2021-10-04T14:00:01+00:00
Duration: 1 min 32 s
Channel: Pamela Furst
Description: In this testimonial, an engineering leader at ZoomInfo explains how the company struggled to measure engineering progress using manual spreadsheet…

4 Oct 2021 · 2 min

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In this testimonial, an engineering leader at ZoomInfo explains how the company struggled to measure engineering progress using manual spreadsheet exports from Jira, requiring dedicated engineers to maintain the data. After adopting Jellyfish, they gained a unified view that combines Jira and Git information, allowing easy drill‑down to specific pull requests and commits. This integration boosted developer productivity and predictability, and provided the leader with concrete data and instrumentation to communicate engineering metrics to business partners, aligning engineering reporting with the data‑driven practices of sales and marketing.

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I've always been interested in the developer productivity, developer velocity kind of space for the past few years. Those were kind of the roles I was engaged in my last two companies, and when I came into ZoomInfo, this was a fairly big gap, as in how do you measure progress in engineering? We used to do a lot of spreadsheet work, opening up Jira, exporting stuff into a spreadsheet, massaging all of that. It was 2 or 3 engineers whose full-time job was essentially that. Now that we started to operate with Jellyfish, definitely more productive, more predictable, and that's a fairly big deal for us. At the end of the day, it provides a great view on top of Jira and Git in one collective tool, right, which is fantastic. Otherwise, I'll need to go deep into Jira and I don't have insight into Git. Then I open up Git and look at Git, right? And then how does it come together? Jellyfish offers me that view, right, and the ability to drill down and pull up the exact pull request or commit, right, which is fantastic. And engineers geek out over that stuff. They really love to see that, right? As an engineering manager, you know, it really helps me provide the data and the instrumentation and the insights which I need when I talk to my business counterparts. I've never really had that before. So it has made my life easier as an engineering leader because of the data and insights. And I feel like, you know, I can match the folks in sales and marketing who got a lot of data and instrumentation around clicks and everything else that they talk about. I have my data in engineering.