Case Study: CDQ achieves greater engineering visibility and 60% product impact with Swarmia

How CDQ gains visibility and autonomy as a remote-first engineering team

CDQ, a remote-first company that simplifies master data management, needed better visibility into its engineering work across distributed teams in Switzerland, Germany, and Poland. Leadership wanted to understand bottlenecks, support teams without micromanaging, and get more reliable data on how much time went to product development versus operations. CDQ chose Swarmia, using it to replace manual tracking and get a clearer view of engineering activity and priorities.

With Swarmia’s investment balance, working agreements, GitHub-Slack notifications, daily summaries, surveys, and flow metrics, CDQ made engineering data part of everyday work and improved transparency across teams. The company increased its product impact from 38% to 60%, helped teams become more autonomous, and strengthened alignment between engineering and leadership. Swarmia also gave product leadership faster insight into blockers and priorities, helping CDQ make better decisions and speed up feature delivery.

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Martin Ofner

Head of Software Development and Operations