For Product Managers
Ticket completion from code, not from the board.
Pull up any ticket and see which criteria are proven in code, before the sprint review or the retro.
Pinging engineers for status
Context-switching is paid by everyone, but the answer should not require an interruption.
Finding out from QA
The worst way to learn a feature shipped incompletely is when QA files a bug. Waterline tracks if code is deviating from acceptance criteria and shows you where it is.
Jira is always out of date
Waterline knows the difference between "Done" in Jira and requirements that are actually in the code.
Know earlier. Show up with numbers from the code.
Check any ticket without interrupting anyone
Open Waterline and pull up any ticket key. You get a percentage complete and a breakdown of which acceptance criteria are proven in merged code without interrupting anyone.
Know what shipped before the sprint review
Waterline maps every merged commit to your acceptance criteria. You know which items landed in code before anyone tells you.
Bring numbers that come from code, not estimates
When you tell stakeholders that progress data comes from merged code, they trust it differently than a status field. Waterline gives you that data.
FEAT-55 · acme/backend
User onboarding email sequence
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AC coverage from merged code. No engineer interrupted.
Common questions
Will engineers feel surveilled if I use this?
Waterline reads merged code, which is already visible to everyone on the team in GitHub. It does not track individual engineers or report on their activity. It answers questions about tickets.
What if the acceptance criteria are not written clearly in Jira?
Waterline works with what is in the ticket. If acceptance criteria are vague or ambiguous, Waterline flags which parts it could not map reliably rather than inventing a number, and helps you rewrite it.
How do I justify this to my engineering team?
Waterline reduces interruptions and architectural drift. Engineers stop getting pinged for status and and build with more focus.
Does Waterline store our source code?
No. Waterline reads diffs and commit information to compute a progress answer, then discards the raw content. Your source code is never stored.