Devbridge Apollo:
The product management toolset for digital pioneers

Why we created it: Org profitability and team efficiency is directly related to effective allocation on projects. The industry lacks tools for at-scale management of contributors that specialize in various technical stacks or have varied seniority levels, etc. Large organizations frequently over-hire and underutilize their workforce.

What it does: The tool easily and effectively helps managers staff budgeted products with the right set of skills (stacks), minimize bench, and plan costs.

• Set utilization targets. Establish individual utilization targets for various tiers of contributors (e.g., developer vs. team lead vs. architect). Manage employment status (e.g., part-time, full-time).

• Allocate contributors to products. Map engineers, designers, product managers, and other roles to projects. View product budget allocation vs. running cost of the allocated team.

• Monitor capacity and plan hiring. Minimize overhead and bench size while running at-scale programs across the enterprise. Filter data based on the team-level view (e.g., hiring planning, technology stack needs) and enterprise view.

• Effectively borrow and share contributors across squads. Easily allocate resources across teams, helping all squads retain high utilization and supplement underutilized budgets.

Why we created it: Accounting tools lack the flexibility and ease of use to allow engineering managers to effectively plan budgets and track against financial goals throughout the year. Generic tools also perform poorly in terms of employee career planning and expectation management (e.g. increases, bonuses, etc).

What it does: The resource management tool helps individual hiring managers to plan budgets, compensation changes, as well as aggregates data to C-level reporting for the company's budget.

• Administer costs. Plan for salary, increases, and bonuses.

• Manage career development agreements. Account for historical compensation review, employment status, planned future increases, part-time or full-time designation.

• Plan and report hiring budgets. Aggregate planned hires and visualize the impact on the company's budget.

• Establish an approval workflow. Request, approve, and deny comp changes from team lead to managing director.

Why we created it: Successful product teams need to build alignment and shared understanding with executive stakeholders and sponsors. Furthermore, CIOs need actionable insight across a portfolio of agile enterprise projects.

What it does: The tool manages the portfolio, delivery vendors, and internal teams through a single application. Use live project health reporting and agile KPIs to guarantee products ship to market on time.

• Master on-time delivery. Aggregated agile metrics across the enterprise helps teams ship to market on time.

• Reduce risks. Build trust and transparency in the team with more than 30 KPIs ranging from velocity to individual time entries to Jira and reporting.

• Improve adoption. Access a comprehensive, organization-wide view into all aspects of your product portfolio, from budgeting to utilization to spend.

Why we created it: Existing products for time tracking lack intelligence and do not provide historical context for improving the team's ability to estimate accurately. Furthermore, refining and improving how unproductive time is spent is not tracked by any off-the-shelf tools.

What it does: The tool fosters a culture of transparency and accountability by tracking time spent on product activities as well as time that is not production-related. Individual contributors and engineering managers can validate the accuracy of time entered and category allocation (type of time).

• Compare historic, estimated, and future work. Allows individual contributors and engineering managers to reflect on completed work and compare estimated effort to actual effort.

• Aggregate time management data. Refine accuracy of team planning, estimate confidence, find overhead, churn, and more.

• Track and share information transparently. Allows team members to log time and compare initial estimates with actual time taken to ship epics.

Why we created it: The entire team needed a scalable, easy to deploy per-channel communication framework for product and organizational metrics.

What it does: The tool provides local offices the ability to configure unique content feeds from a pool of dynamic templates from metrics to employee anniversaries, company videos, announcements, and utilization targets.

• Access information anytime, anywhere. View the latest data across channels, on the device of your choice.