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Key Investments
Q2 Projects Q3 Focus Areas

Project Q1 Cost Headcount Status Project Inv. Type Description

ABC-123 CDF-456 New Client Onboarding Platform

Client Reporting $415K 8.3 GA ⏺

ABC-244 Employee Performance

$397K 10.8 ↑ On Track ⏺ ARG-991 DevEx
Platform Scale Dashboard

ABC-244 PRJ-15 KTLO Project Management Suite

Integrations Suite $381K 7.2 ↓ At Risk ⏺

ABC-244 Customer Support

ICD-660 New
Platform Infra $294K 5.5 On Track ⏺ Automation Tool

ABC-244 Document Collaboration

Platform Scale $526K 14.1↑↑ Beta ⏺ UIS-331 New
Platform

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Q2 UPDATE
R&D is making strong progress toward our strategic goals,

Executive Summary
particularly in cloud migration, product innovation, and
cybersecurity, while staying focused on managing risks
related to AI and regulatory changes.

Strategic Priorities in Q3 Team Updates & Open Roles Key Initiatives & Progress

● Continue progress on the cloud ● Headcount flat at 124, In Q2 we launched new AI-powered features that have
migration, with the goal of 100% with Q3 target of 130 received positive feedback from customers, with early
transition by the end of Q4. adopters reporting a 15% increase in efficiency and a 9%
● 5 open roles, w/ a Sr. group
improvement in customer satisfaction scores.
● Finalize and scale the AI product manager search under way
features across our core platforms.
Additionally we’ve made significant improvements to our
● Enhance our data analytics capabilities developer experience, streamlining workflows and reducing
to support better decision-making friction, leading to a 20% increase in team productivity and
across the business. a 24% reduction in development time for key features.

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 FEATURED METRICS

Q2 UPDATE

Engineering Health
Cycle Time Planning Accuracy
● Project Delivery: Successfully launched
3 major features on time, with 95% of
2d 10h ↓ 71% ↑
projects meeting deadlines and quality
Introduced automations to yield 20% Rolled out org. wide goal initiative
standards.
reduction QoQ focused on sprint planning

● Team Performance: Engineering team

productivity has increased by 20% due
to recent process improvements and
targeted training initiatives.
Change Failure Automation
● Technical Debt: Reduced technical
debt by 15% through focused .4% ↓ 16k hours saved
refactoring efforts, ensuring long-term
system scalability and maintainability. Continuing elite quality trend from new The impact of operationalizing new AI
testing suite workflow automations

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 Q2 UPDATE

Investment Profile
Strategy Overview

Over the past quarter we’ve made shifted

project focus areas in order align more closely
to our aligned investment benchmarks.

● New Value: 7% QoQ jump in Q2 as we

continue to adjust headcount to
platform scale projects.

● Feature Enhancements: 12% decrease

QoQ with a heavier investment planned
via Q3 focus areas

● Developer Experience: 4% QoQ growth

due to investment in new tooling
integrations across teams

● Keeping the Lights On: Continues to

rise as anticipated due to quality issues
in data services and cloud migration.

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Org. ●

●
GenAI Adoption

Code Quality

Initiatives
● Experience & Productivity
Q2 ENGINEERING INITIATIVES

GenAI Adoption
In Q2 we continued to roll out GenAI coding tools in the IDE and AI-based code reviews, with substantial upside. We are
experimenting with Coding Agents, documentation and quality use cases, expecting to operationalize in Q4.

Code Assist Code Review Coding Agents

Operational ⏺ Operational ⏺ Experimental ⏺

ADOPTION ADOPTION ADOPTION

Q3 goal:

68% 44% 4
Q1: 45% Q1: 35%
12 teams
Q3 goal: 75% Q3 goal: 60%
of devs of pull requests teams 9% of PRs

IMPACT IMPACT IMPACT

12% decrease in coding time 6.9K dev hours saved in Q2 7% of pull requests now AI created

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INITIATIVE SUMMARY
Over the past quarter, we’ve explored and implemented
GenAI Under the Hood AI-driven capabilities in areas such as code generation,
code review support automation, and predictive analytics.

Code Assist We have implemented

GenAI Code Review
GitHub Copilot in order to
decrease coding time and
bug rates. To date we’ve
seen 78% positive rating
from our devs.

Code Review AI Workflows continue to

expand beyond the IDE
with the use of gitStream
to take first review on all
PRs. Early impact shows
6k dev hours saved.

Coding Agents We have started live

experiments with GPT-4o,
taking on small tasks with
heavy governance
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Q2 ENGINEERING INITIATIVES

Developer Productivity & Experience

In Q2, we focused on enhancing developer experience and productivity by rolling out new automation tools
within our git and chat tools that are showing promising improvements in time to market and hours saved.

Automation Efficiency DevEx

16K 3d19h ↓ 54 Q1: 51%

Q3 goal: 60%
Dev hours saved Time to Market Top Quartile Performance Engineering NPS

5% Q1: 2%
Q3 goal: 9% 71% ↑ Q1: 70%
Q3 goal: 75% 1.8 ↑ per dev/wk
Of pull requests
Planning Accuracy Merge Frequency
auto-merged

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INITIATIVE SUMMARY
Over the past quarter, we’ve enhance our data analytics
DevEx Under the Hood capabilities and developer automations to support better
decision-making across the business and decrease toil.

Auto-Merge Our latest tool, gitStream, has

Team Productivity View
allowed us to auto-merge safe
changes, due to new governance
and policy capabilities.

Planning Accuracy The entire eng. org. has taken

goals to improve the way we plan
and work through sprints. Early
survey results show a 11%
increase in positive ratings for our
ways of working.

engNPS We continue to make positive

improvement on our engNPS
scores, which are directly
correlated with our improving
employee retention numbers.

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Q2 ENGINEERING INITIATIVES

Quality
Q2 Investments
● Increase code coverage to 80%
● Fix flaky tests in 40% of suites
● New e2e testing harness

Impact
● 12% drop in escaped defects QoQ
● 20% reduction in failed tests
● Effort allocation for customer
issues down 7% QoQ

Q3 Focus
● Coverage to 85%
● Form dedicated QA team → Resource Allocation: Customer Issues

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