Superna slashes dev onboarding time and labor-intensive workflows with GitKraken's powerful suite of tools

94% Time Savings

Reduced data gathering process for team reporting from 8 hours down to 30 minutes with Signals.

Reduced Developer Onboarding Time

Used GitKraken Workspaces to quickly share repositories and institutional knowledge.

Improved Team Cohesion

GitLens in-line blame and visual history helped developers understand new code much more quickly, which helped the entire team build & deploy faster.

Problems

• Onboarding: New team members were slowed down by a lack of context in which repositories to work with and understanding changes to existing code.
• Reporting: Project managers were spending excessive time assembling reports on development time spent on new features vs. maintaining existing product.
• Developer Experience: Team wanted to foster collaboration to make it easier for their distributed dev team to work more cohesively and move faster.

Solution

• As a pilot, a 5-person team of devs incorporated GitKraken Desktop, GitLens, Git Integration for Jira, and Signals for Jira into their workflows for a month.
• Improved team collaboration and reduced time needed to get up to speed on new code.
• Used top-down and bottom-up metrics to improve development workflows and eliminate labor-intensive data gathering.
• Adopted all 4 products, making it available to their entire team.

Location: Ontario, Canada with additional dev team in Spain
Industry: Hardware & Software Technology
Solutions: GitKraken Desktop, GitLens, Git Integration for Jira, Signals
Employees: 100

GitLens solves pretty much all of my problems. I can't imagine working without it. It helps tremendously when I want to see changes that were made on a line.

Neel P. | Software Developer

Story

Superna is an industry leader in managing, protecting and securing unstructured data across any hybrid cloud environment. With global operations and thousands of customers across all verticals, Superna delivers a scalable, secure and easy to orchestrate platform to secure data wherever it lives.

With over 4 Exabytes under management, Superna’s product and development teams are tasked with ensuring their platform is as performant and secure as possible.

Where some case studies start with a project that went poorly or a big challenge to overcome, this one starts with a quest for efficiency and making life easier for developers, product managers, and project managers.

Kyle Fransham, VP, Research and Development at Superna, identified areas of their workflows that were pain points – individuals working on new code bases, onboarding new devs, pulling data on the types of work devs were focused on – and focused on how he could help alleviate those pains.

Team trial of GitKraken's full suite of tools

Kyle was a user of GitKraken tools like GitLens, and also knew of a few developers using them on their own as well. That prompted a thought – if he and other developers were seeing value with individual tools, what if they took a more cohesive approach? Kyle signed up for a 28-day organization trial of all 3 GitKraken products – GitKraken Desktop, GitLens, and Git Integration for Jira.

Using Workspaces in GitKraken Desktop to improve onboarding and teamwork

Kyle highlighted Workspaces as a key feature for onboarding.

“I can absolutely see the value, especially in onboarding. Join this workspace and clone it, and then it’s all there.”

With GitKraken Workspaces, you can quickly onboard new team members by giving them 1 place to easily clone all their repos. Developers highlighted multiple areas of GitKraken Desktop that stood out versus what they were using before.

The thing I love in GitKraken Desktop is Workspaces.

“I really love the Diff function, it’s the easiest view I’ve seen so far in all of the Git tools. I use the split view every day.”

Understanding the evolution of code with GitLens

With developers spending most of their time in VS Code, adding GitLens was an immediate hit with the trial users. With inline blame, developers appreciated the ease in which they could see the history of a line of code and why it changed.

“I think it’s an amazing product, I like everything about it, it’s a life saver. It’s made a huge difference,” said Andy.

A better Jira experience with Git Integration for Jira

Git Integration for Jira made life easier for developers by allowing them to create branches and pull requests directly from the Jira issue view.

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