🏆 Case Study

WeWork India Achieves 4x Planning Success and Cuts Unplanned Work in Half

Read how Middleware helped WeWork India take control of its engineering delivery below

⚡ What did they achieve?

The Results

400%

Planned Ticket Success

50%

Unplanned Tickets

80%

Sprint Spillover

80%

Sprint Adherence

✨ Problems we solved

The Challenges

As WeWork India rapidly scaled its engineering team, they faced growing operational challenges

Limited visibility

Reliance on Jira and manual reporting hinders predictability

Reliance on Jira and manual reporting hinders predictability

Reliance on Jira and manual reporting hinders predictability

Slower Decisions

Performance data took a week to compile manually

Performance data took a week to compile manually

Performance data took a week to compile manually

60% Unplanned Work

60% Work Unplanned

Disrupting sprint planning and focus

Disrupting sprint planning and focus

Disrupting sprint planning and focus

50% sprint spillover

Making consistent delivery nearly impossible

Making consistent delivery nearly impossible

Making consistent delivery nearly impossible

✨ How we solved them

Our Solutions

Real Time Visibility

Through our unified, intuitive dashboards

Actionable insights

To increase efficiency, KPIs and solve bottlenecks across teams

Automated Tracking of Critical Metrics

Including DORA

Seamless integration

Jira, GitLab, Slack, Meet and all existing tools

✨ How did it affect the organisation?

The Impact

Middleware transformed WeWork’s engineering operations in just six months of adoption

More Predictable Feature Delivery

Enabling reliable execution on planned roadmaps and commitments

Increased Engineering Capacity

Freeing up significant engineering time for high-value innovation and development

Faster Time to Market with Features

Accelerating the delivery of new features and updates to customers

Higher Product Quality & Stability

Leading to fewer production issues, faster resolution, and improved customer satisfaction

Before Middleware

After Middleware

Business Impact


High Unplanned Work:

Nearly 60% Adhoc Tickets

Reduced Unplanned Work: Adhoc Tickets reduced by 50% (~30%)

Increased Engineering Capacity for High-Value Work

High Spillover: Approx. 50% of tasks spilled over

Reduced Spillover: Spillover tasks decreased by 80% (~10%)

Improved Resource Utilization & Efficiency

Low Planning Success: Below 40% Planned Ticket Success Rate

Achieved High Planning Success: Planned Ticket Success Rate over 95% (>130% increase)

More Predictable Feature Delivery

Low Sprint Adherence: Around 50% adherence

Increased Sprint Adherence: Rose to ~90% (80% increase)

Improved Delivery Reliability

Slow PR Cycle Time: Avg. 15h 47m PR creation to merge

Rapid PR Cycle Time: Near 100% reduction (~0 by Feb 2025)

Faster Time to Market for Features & Updates

High Mean Time to Restore (MTTR): 4 days 13 hours

Much Faster MTTR: Reduced to 7h 2m (>93% decrease)

Enhanced Product Stability & Quicker Incident Recovery

Before Middleware

After Middleware

Business Impact


High Unplanned Work:

Nearly 60% Adhoc Tickets

Reduced Unplanned Work: Adhoc Tickets reduced by 50% (~30%)

Increased Engineering Capacity for High-Value Work

High Spillover: Approx. 50% of tasks spilled over

Reduced Spillover: Spillover tasks decreased by 80% (~10%)

Improved Resource Utilization & Efficiency

Low Planning Success: Below 40% Planned Ticket Success Rate

Achieved High Planning Success: Planned Ticket Success Rate over 95% (>130% increase)

More Predictable Feature Delivery

Low Sprint Adherence: Around 50% adherence

Increased Sprint Adherence: Rose to ~90% (80% increase)

Improved Delivery Reliability

Slow PR Cycle Time: Avg. 15h 47m PR creation to merge

Rapid PR Cycle Time: Near 100% reduction (~0 by Feb 2025)

Faster Time to Market for Features & Updates

High Mean Time to Restore (MTTR): 4 days 13 hours

Much Faster MTTR: Reduced to 7h 2m (>93% decrease)

Enhanced Product Stability & Quicker Incident Recovery

About WeWork

WeWork India is one of India’s leading premium flex office space providers, aimed at creating flexible workspace solutions for companies of all sizes.


Since its inception in India in 2016, WeWork India has expanded across 61 locations in Chennai, New Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, and Hyderabad

About Middleware

Middleware is the #1 engineering productivity platform, empowering engineering leaders with the tools needed to streamline workflows, automate reporting, and gain actionable insights such as,


Dora Metrics, Flow Metrics, Bottleneck Analysis, and more!

💬 Testimonials

What Our Users Say

  • Middleware enabled tracking of sprint health, performance & growth

    Our team has gotten healthier and more collaborative than ever before. It’s just been absolutely fantastic. The team at Middleware is always around, always available, I don’t know when they sleep.

    Kris Chase

    VP Engineering

  • Something we couldn’t get with other tools

    Middleware has very robust data reports for both Jira and Github which is something we had trouble finding with other tools. We are able to get a more hollistic view of how well our teams are performing and identify gaps and bottlenecks that need to be addressed.

    Marisa Bernstein

    Technical Project Manager

  • The visibility into our processes we wanted

    Our aha moment was when we could really see how long each story point actually took our team. The time saved now can be used to make our developers more productive by working closely with them.

    Madanlal Arora

    AVP Engineering

  • Jellyfish never clicked for me

    Even with all that runway of maturity that they’ve developed, it wasn’t solving the problems. I didn’t like it. Middleware, on the other hand, felt like it was built exactly for me. I’ve tried Jira, GitHub, spreadsheets — everything. Middleware is what finally gave me my Fridays back.

    Carlos Sanchez

    Technical Project Manager

  • Middleware enabled tracking of sprint health, performance & growth

    Our team has gotten healthier and more collaborative than ever before. It’s just been absolutely fantastic. The team at Middleware is always around, always available, I don’t know when they sleep.

    Kris Chase

    VP Engineering

  • Something we couldn’t get with other tools

    Middleware has very robust data reports for both Jira and Github which is something we had trouble finding with other tools. We are able to get a more hollistic view of how well our teams are performing and identify gaps and bottlenecks that need to be addressed.

    Marisa Bernstein

    Technical Project Manager

  • The visibility into our processes we wanted

    Our aha moment was when we could really see how long each story point actually took our team. The time saved now can be used to make our developers more productive by working closely with them.

    Madanlal Arora

    AVP Engineering

  • Jellyfish never clicked for me

    Even with all that runway of maturity that they’ve developed, it wasn’t solving the problems. I didn’t like it. Middleware, on the other hand, felt like it was built exactly for me. I’ve tried Jira, GitHub, spreadsheets — everything. Middleware is what finally gave me my Fridays back.

    Carlos Sanchez

    Technical Project Manager

🤔 Frequently Asked Questions

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How does Middleware help with engineering productivity?

What makes Middleware an effective engineering productivity tool?

Can Middleware help me start measuring engineering productivity right away?

We have budget constraints. Are there any options for us?

We have worked with one of your competitors before but didn't really have a good experience, how is Middleware different?