During crunch time, every minute counts. Save hours of manually collecting software projects cost estimates with Flow's Investment Profile. Our proprietary algorithm automatically calculates where developer teams spend their time so you can spend your time where it matters most
Software cost-capitalization made simple
Flow shows how much each project and work type costs in terms of real engineering time without time-carding or tedious spreadsheet gymnastics.
Get the numbers you need, without the back-and-forth
Numbers you can trust
Flow's Dev Week view in Investment Profile accurately estimates where developer time was spent by work type and epics. Our proprietary algorithm leverages roughly 10 signals from Git, Jira, and PR data to capture developer effort with precision.
Focus on the most important work
Did your engineers’ work move the business forward, or did changing priorities compete with your engineers’ most important work? Align your investment layers based on your business priorities to see what percentage of engineers’ time goes to each category.
Calculate the cost of features, projects, and work types quickly, easily, and accurately
Easily export Dev Weeks data for use in your accounting or business analytics software. Then pair engineering allocation info with salary data and quickly quantity development costs of a new feature or capitalize R&D expenses. All without time-carding or tedious spreadsheets
Understand your software development costs
Your engineers' time is precious. Spend it wisely by investing in your team's happiness, your roadmap's success, and your product's stability. Flow's investment Profile shows you how to strike the right balance.
Knock out your roadmap
Ensure your team is working on the engineering roadmap and make
engineering project management easier by giving stakeholders better timing estimates. Investment Profile lets you visualize work going toward epics, allowing you to prioritize those epics by how they benefit the business and according to your engineers capacity.
Knock out your roadmap
Ensure your team is working on the engineering roadmap and make engineering project management easier by giving stakeholders better timing estimates. Do this by measuring work going toward epics and prioritizing those epics by how they benefit the business.
Improve developer satisfaction
Spread out exciting feature work and not-so-fun maintenance to keep your developers happy and engaged. See how this work allocation changes across time; should an engineer spend a whole sprint working on bugs? Maybe. Should that engineer always get stuck with the bugs? Definitely not.
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Whether you’re trying to accelerate delivery, improve your team’s collaboration and mentoring, or better see how leadership decisions impact your team’s processes, Flow is here to help. Our Flow experts can meet your individual needs and help you tailor Flow to your strategy.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I determine the cost of my engineering work?
The best way to determine the cost of each engineering project is to:
See which engineers worked on the project.
Measure the percentage of the engineers’ time that they spent on that project.
Multiply each engineer’s salary and payroll expenses by their respective percentages.
Add those percentages for your total project cost.
How to allocate work across engineers?
When allocating work to engineers, consider engineering satisfaction. Keep engineers happy by evenly distributing work like exciting new features, maintenance, regulatory and bug fixes.
How to prioritize work across engineers?
When prioritizing work, consider the urgency of each project. When you need work done as quickly as possible, allocate it to engineers who are stronger in that area. But when projects can take their time, assign it to engineers who could learn from that work. This balances speeding up software delivery with keeping engineers happy.
How to plan work across engineers?
In order to plan for the future, look at past data. How many tickets or story points did each team and each individual accomplish in a given amount of time? Then, use that data to assume that your team’s productivity will be relatively similar for future work.