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Jellyfish launched Life Cycle Explorer, a new solution that identifies bottlenecks in the life cycle of engineering work to help teams adapt workflow processes and more effectively deliver value to customers.

Life Cycle Explorer dives deeper to expose and investigate the root cause of process breakdowns so teams can mitigate their impact moving forward.

Life Cycle Explorer highlights the "Goldilocks zone" for engineering efficiency and enables managers to define a concrete approach to their development strategy.

"Modern software development teams and their leaders have no easy way to visualize, break down, and understand their development life cycles," said Krishna Kannan, Head of Product at Jellyfish. "With Life Cycle Explorer, teams can now identify and remediate bottlenecks, unlock process obstacles, and improve trends through the full life cycle of software development. Jellyfish is helping engineering leaders go beyond metrics to gain a complete understanding of each opportunity they have to improve team performance."

In order to best lead their teams, engineering managers need the ability to quickly look at a subset of data over time and recognize trends. Top-level metrics lack the detail necessary to extract outliers and determine how to avoid or cultivate the behavior contributing to them. Jellyfish Life Cycle Explorer gives teams the ability to identify the root cause of slowdowns and bottlenecks by tracking issues through Jira workflows and categorizing the work effort as either refinement, work, review or deployment. The new solution calculates the amount of time an issue spends in each workflow stage, maps this process visually, and highlights performance trends over time.

Using these visualizations, teams can take into account the full life cycle from creation to production deployment. Engineers can identify gaps when issues are sitting idle, see where work areas overlap indicating parallel processes, and drill into how outliers may be impacting overall project life cycles so outliers can be addressed. Jellyfish's Life Cycle Explorer delivers more granular analysis than competitive offerings, allowing engineering teams to make more precise, long-lasting changes to their workflows.

With Life Cycle Explorer, software engineering teams can unlock their development workflows and more effectively deliver value to customers.