Case Study: Planning Center protects its engineering culture with Swarmia

Planning Center protects engineering culture with Swarmia across 100+ engineers

Planning Center, a software company serving over 100,000 churches, wanted to protect its high-performing engineering culture as it scaled beyond 100 engineers. Their challenge was to add structure to their processes without creating overhead, moving beyond making decisions on "good vibes and best intentions" to catch potential blind spots early. They turned to Swarmia for its engineering intelligence platform.

Using Swarmia, Planning Center implemented solutions to monitor stale pull requests, understand engineering effort with investment balance reports, and gather developer feedback via bi-annual surveys with over 85% participation. The results provided a data-driven check on their instincts, creating a shared view of reality for leadership conversations. This allowed them to make better decisions on effort allocation and prioritize improvements, ensuring their teams remained effective and their culture was preserved.

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