Why Ace is better than Uplevel as a talent management system for developer teams
Ace is a talent management system built for Engineering managers and their developers
of developers quit in the 1st year facing bad management or lack of career growth.
of Engineering manager’s responsibilities include people management.
of managers have ZERO engineering management skills
Why Engineering managers are better people managers for developers than HRs
HR Manager vs Engineering Manager
Hiring and Interview developer
HR Manager
HR manager can do the initial screening of candidates to see culture fit and experienced tech recruiters can qualify the initial skill fit.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager defines the required skill set, interviews, and finally hires a developer.
Onboarding developer
HR Manager
HR manager onboards developers to the company's wide processes and procedures.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager onboards developer to a role, team and product.
Problems with developer productivity
HR Manager
HR manager doesn’t understand work of developers, so she/he can't notice problems with developer productivity until a performance review.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager is a developer. She/he can notice when other developers are not productive.
Improve developer productivity
HR Manager
HR manager can’t continuously improve productivity of developers, because she/he doesn’t understand real work and the reason of productivity, such as legacy code, lack of skills, etc.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager has the knowledge and skills to create a skill matrix and career paths, though lacks a framework to deploy their knowledge.
Problems with developer motivation
HR Manager
HR manager can identify problems with motivation that are not caused by working experience of developers, such as personal problems, conflicts at work, salary, etc.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager can identify problems that are caused by working experience of developers, such as the lack of skills needed for career progression, work with legacy code, lack of mentorship, etc.
Improve developer motivation
HR Manager
HR manager can help with motivation problems caused by personal problems, conflicts at work, salary, etc.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager can help with motivation problems caused by the lack of skills needed for career progression, work with legacy code, lack of mentorship, etc.
Problems with developer's hard skills
HR Manager
HR manager can notice a lack of hard skills based on a skill review performed by developers.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager can notice a lack of hard skills based on weekly interaction with developers and intervene faster to mentor them.
Problems with developer's soft skills
HR Manager
HR manager can notice a lack of soft skills based on one-to-ones with developers, however HR manager lacks context of a developer's day-to-day routine.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager can notice a lack of soft skills based on one-to-ones with developers, and is involved into context of a developer's day-to-day routine.
Train and improve skills of developers
HR Manager
HR manager can provide general training on the company's culture or soft skills improvement.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager can provide developers with personal mentorship based on skill gaps, working tasks, and desired career promotion.
Career progressions and promotions of developers
HR Manager
HR manager can notice problems with promotion based on feedback from developers or performance review, however HR manager lacks context about skills and projects of developers.
Engineering Manager
Engineering manager can notice problems with promotion based on weekly interaction with developers and intervene faster to mentor developers for the promotion.
Whose and What problem does Ace solve vs Uplevel
Ace vs Uplevel
Tool Category
Ace
EngOps Tool
Uplevel
DevOps Tool
Primary User Persona
Ace
CTO, Engineering manager
Uplevel
CTO, Engineering manager
Problem
Ace
I don’t know how to mentor and improve performance of developers.
Uplevel
We don’t know why we deploy code so slow or don’t understand where we have problems in our code base.
Value
Ace
Use Ace's Growth Framework to mentor and improve performance of developers with insights and recommendations.
Uplevel
Visualized Git with highlighted production bottlenecks.
How Ace Solutions are different from Uplevel
Ace vs Uplevel
Tool Category
Ace
EngOps Tool
Uplevel
DevOps Tool
Career progression and promotions
Ace
Ace connects the work of developers (in Jira and Git) with skills that they need to grow to get a promotion and provides skill matrices with skills, levels, and career paths for 100+ developer, design, and product roles.
Uplevel
In Dev analytics tools like Uplevel, developer productivity is not connected with career progressions of developers, that undermines the basis of developer motivation.
Developer Mentorship
Ace
Ace connects the work of developers (in Jira and Git) with skills that they need to grow to get a promotion, so Engineering managers run mentor sessions and create a personal growth plan being aware of developers' work and the desired career progression level.
Uplevel
In Dev analytics tools like Uplevel, developer productivity issues aren't connected with the role's specific skill gaps of developers (e.g Python or Node.js), so you usually know that there's a problem with developer performance, but you can't identify or fill the skill gaps to improve it.
Developer productivity and motivation
Ace
Ace provides automatic insights about developer productivity, motivation, and skill gaps, as well as gives recommendations on how to run one-to-ones and grow the skills of developers that you can scale across your team and automate your engineering culture.
Uplevel
In Dev analytics tools like Uplevel, you get analytics about developer productivity, however Engineering managers still need to analyze this data and create recommendations for developers manually rather than eliminate or preserve productivity patterns across the team automatically with insight and recommendations.
Why Ace is more simple to implement than Uplevel
Ace vs Faros.ai
Tool Category
Ace
EngOps Tool
Uplevel
DevOps Tool
Career progression and promotions
Ace
Ace connects the work of developers (in Jira and Git) with skills that they need to get a promotion and provides skill matrices with skills, levels and career paths for 100+ developer, design and product roles. Hence Engineering managers can run mentor sessions and create personal growth plans by easily importing the last Pull Requests from Gitlab and use a skill matrix template to see the exact skill gaps a developer needs to fill up to get a promotion
Uplevel
In Dev analytics tools like Uplevel, developer productivity is not connected with career progressions of developers, hence you need to create skill matrices from scratch and keep them separately.
Developer Mentorship
Ace
Ace connects the work of developers (in Jira and Git) with skills that they need to grow to get a promotion, hence Engineering managers can run mentor sessions and create personal growth plans easily by importing the last Pull Requests from Gitlab and seeing the exact skill gaps a developer needs to fill up to improve productivity and get a promotion.
Uplevel
In Dev analytics tools like Uplevel, developer productivity issues aren't connected with a role's specific skill gaps of developers (e.g. Python or Node.js), hence to provide Developer Mentorship, Engineering managers have to spend a lot of time to manually associate productivity issues with developer's skill gaps.
Developer productivity and motivation
Ace
Ace provides automatic insights about developer productivity, motivation, and skill gaps, as well as gives recommendations on how to run one-to-ones and grow the skills of developers, hence you can automate Engineering management across your teams and automate your engineering culture.
Uplevel
In Dev analytics tools like Uplevel, you get analytics about developer productivity, however Engineering managers have to analyze this data and create recommendations for developers, hence Engineering managers still need a lot of time to do all management almost manually.