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Date Published
Author
Gerhard Jacobs
Word count
887
Language
English
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None

Summary

Forethought, a high-growth startup, faced challenges with rapid growth in their engineering team, including complex processes and difficulty determining ownership of issues. They implemented Sentry to define roles, prioritize issues more efficiently, and gain visibility into engineering velocity. With customizable solutions like GitHub CODEOWNERS file integration, Dashboards for tracking performance, and real-time insights through Sentry Stats, Forethought reduced time to resolution by up to 94%, deployed new releases an average of 2.5 times a day without sacrificing quality, improved search latency by 20-30%, integrated internal apps for easy investigation, and became more strategic about team growth and management. By empowering their engineers with the tools to succeed at scale, Forethought achieved improved team health, autonomy, and performance.