Case Study: Zinc Doubles Sprint Goal Achievement with ZenHub

How Zinc Doubled Their Achieved Sprint Goals

Zinc, a secure messaging company serving deskless workers, needed a better way to coordinate eight simultaneous projects across multiple platforms without relying on micromanagement. With a low 1:9 manager-to-developer ratio and fragmented communication across GitHub and external tools, the team struggled to keep project status accurate and aligned.

ZenHub was introduced to help Zinc centralize project tracking and let engineers manage their own workflows directly in GitHub. After adopting ZenHub, Zinc achieved 100% of sprint deadlines, doubled GitHub usage, and saved 645 engineering hours per month plus 86 product management hours per month, while improving accountability and autonomy across the team.

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Christina Lucey

Vice President Product