LinearB, the team behind Software Delivery Intelligence, has announced $16 million in Series A funding to fundamentally change the way dev teams operate. The new investment was led by Battery Ventures, and includes existing investors 83North and Ariel Maislos, and new investor TechAviv Founder Partners.

The investment brings LinearB’s total funding to $21 million. It comes after six months of growth during which more than 1,100 Agile and DevOps teams adopted the LinearB platform.

Dev teams using LinearB SDI improve their time-to-value (Cycle Time) by 48 percent on average after 90 days, the company said.

“Metrics alone do not improve dev teams. This is the mistake first-generation engineering efficiency tools made. Software Delivery Intelligence takes visibility and turns it into insight and active improvement,” said Ori Keren, CEO of LinearB.

“Helping engineering teams improve and scale is not about managing developers more strictly with top down control. It’s about empowering developers by giving them more context, less bureaucracy and more time to build,” Keren added.

According to LinearB, a driving factor in the company’s rapid growth is its focus on community and facilitating new thinking. Its fast-growing Dev Interrupted online community and podcast for progressive dev leaders facilitates open discussions and shared experiences around scaling teams, building culture and using Software Delivery Intelligence.

LinearB co-founder Dan Lines, DZone’s 2020 Agile Person of the Year, leads these efforts.