Your playbook for turning engineering effort into outcomes — and leading with clarity at every leve
About the guide
Where your team spends time is where your business places bets. This guide shows you how to analyze and rebalance that investment using Flow’s Investment Profile — so you can drive better outcomes, faster.
What’s inside:
- How to connect engineering allocation to business goals
- Proven strategies to improve delivery, predictability, and team health
- Practical guidance to prioritize with confidence and coach with context
“This isn’t just a reporting layer — it’s a way to lead better. Investment Profile helps you see what’s working, what’s not, and where your team needs support.”
What is engineering investment data?
Engineering investment data shows how much effort is going into features, maintenance, bugs, and unplanned work — across teams, initiatives, or time. Flow helps you surface that data in minutes, so you can make smarter, faster decisions without the guesswork.
Why Flow
Flow gives you more than metrics — it helps you lead with insight. With integrations across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, ADO, and Jira, Flow turns raw delivery data into actionable coaching signals and investment clarity.
Flow turns data into direction:
- See where time is going — and whether it aligns to strategy
- Understand cross-team allocation to reduce context switching
- Identify blockers and off-balance workloads before they stall delivery
- Coach teams more effectively with data they trust
Flow offers:
- Clear, configurable reporting on engineering allocation
- Personalized benchmarks by team, project, or role
- Strategic onboarding and expert coaching to drive adoption
Flow is your partner in building high-performing, outcomes-driven engineering teams.
High-performing teams start with clear priorities. This guide shows you how to use engineering investment data to support better decisions, faster delivery, and stronger team health — without adding more dashboards.
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