Waydev SDLC 15B is our own AI model, trained on software delivery data. Ask questions in plain English, generate dashboards from a sentence, and turn any widget into an explanation, a forecast, or a full dashboard.

Deployed on-premise, it runs on your own GPU, so your prompts, data, and answers never leave your network. *

Docs: https://docs.waydev.co/v5.0/docs/waydev-sdlc

Highlights

• Generate dashboards. Describe what you want to track, for example "Build a dashboard on AI tool adoption and merge survival", and Waydev SDLC 15B builds it for you, complete with the right metrics and widgets.
• Create dashboards from any widget. Click the sparkle icon on any widget and choose Create related dashboard to expand a single chart into a full dashboard on the same topic. Docs: https://docs.waydev.co/v5.0/docs/dashboards
• Explain, Predict, Improve. Every widget now has three AI actions. Explain tells you what the insight means. Predict forecasts where the metric is heading. Improve gives you actionable recommendations.
• Ask your data. Ask questions like "Why did cycle time go up last sprint?" and get answers grounded in your PRs, commits, issues, deployments, teams, and AI usage. No analyst or custom report needed. Docs: https://docs.waydev.co/v5.0/docs/waydev-agent
• Private by design.* Waydev SDLC 15B can run on a GPU server inside your network. It makes no calls to outside AI vendors and keeps working without internet access once installed.

Ask Waydev

• Generate widgets from a description, for example "Show me a widget with the most used AI tools".
• Download generated widgets, add them to an existing dashboard, or turn them into a related dashboard straight from the chat.
• Get explanations of metric changes and forecasts of trends.
• Get help choosing and understanding Waydev metrics, including DORA, PR cycle time, review depth, investment allocation, and AI coding adoption.
• Generate valid SQL on the Waydev schema.
• Get how-to answers from the Waydev documentation.
• Get PR reviews and help with coding questions.

Privacy and Compliance

• Local execution.* Prompts, data, and answers stay inside your infrastructure.
• Existing permissions. The model reads data only through Waydev's tools, which apply your existing account and permission checks.
• Works Council mode. Answers stay at team level, and the model declines to rank or single out individuals.
• Anonymization. Colleagues' names can be hidden in answers.
• Audit logging. Every AI request is logged with the model used, the skill applied, and whether a customer-owned key was used.

Built on Waydev Expertise

• Trained on more than ten years of Waydev's work: real questions from support, onboarding, and executive reviews, plus our metric definitions and data model.
• Every training answer is checked automatically. Numbers must match reference SQL, and answers with invalid SQL, invented columns, or leaked names are discarded.
• A new version ships only if it beats the current model on a frozen benchmark of more than 100 cases.
• 9 out of 10 answers are correct, with 53% fewer wrong answers than the open-source base model.

Deployment

• Runs on a single NVIDIA GPU: 16 GB minimum (64K context, 4 parallel requests) or 48 GB recommended (128K context, 6 parallel requests).\*
• Infrastructure cost is fixed, with no per-token fees.\*
• Waydev SDLC 15B is the default model. You can also use Claude or bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key.
• Custom builds are available, covering your terminology, KPIs, internal docs, workflows, and works agreement rules.

* Applies only to on-premise deployments, where Waydev SDLC 15B runs on a GPU server inside your own network. These capabilities are not available on Waydev Cloud. Contact your Waydev account manager to discuss on-premise deployment.

References:

https://docs.waydev.co/v5.0/docs/waydev-agent
https://docs.waydev.co/v5.0/docs/waydev-sdlc
https://docs.waydev.co/v5.0/docs/ai-providers-byok
https://docs.waydev.co/v5.0/docs/dashboards

Highlights

AI Impact. A new AI Impact view helps you understand how AI tools are affecting your engineering organization's delivery and output.

New PR metrics and PR classification. Pull requests are now automatically classified, and a new set of PR metrics gives you a clearer picture of review and delivery performance.

Linear integration. Connect Linear to Waydev with the same depth of support available for Jira.

Microsoft Teams integration. Receive Waydev notifications and updates in Microsoft Teams, with full parity to our Slack integration.

Dashboards

• Default dashboards are now created automatically when you connect an integration, and they are added to your favorites.
• Your Main Dashboard is selected automatically based on the integrations you have connected.
• Dashboards have been renamed for clarity: "PRs Dashboard" is now Pull Requests, and "Velocity Dashboard" is now Velocity.
• Fixes and improvements to the DORA entities table.

Metrics and Filtering

• Filter metrics by issue type across the platform.
• Exclude specific issue types directly from your integration settings.
• Outlier exclusion now extends to time-based issue metrics and is enabled by default, with sensible default thresholds for PR and issue times.
• Issue states are now pulled only from allowlisted issue collections, keeping your data focused and accurate.
• "Unassigned" is no longer available as a team filter value.

Settings

• New Teams management in Settings: view your teams, create and edit them, and assign users.
• Settings > Aggregations is now organized into four tabs for easier navigation.
• New licensing management.
• Proof of Concept accounts now display a banner when the trial is about to expire or has expired.

Assistant

• We clarified that selecting an Assistant skill is optional, so you can start asking questions right away.

Security and Reliability

• Security hardening across the platform following a third-party penetration test.
• Performance and reliability improvements to data fetching, the database layer, and data models.
• Fixed an edge case in the ClickUp integration related to user avatars.
• Various fixes and follow-ups based on customer feedback.

Roles, Scopes & Anonymization

• Anonymization, Roles and Scopes Implementation - Implemented role-based access control on the frontend, restricting features based on assigned roles. Docs: Roles.

• Anonymization Updates for Components - Extended anonymization coverage to additional UI components.

Metrics & Analytics

• Signals - Signals is an AI-evaluated notification system that monitors your engineering data and sends alerts to the right people when something noteworthy is happening. Explore more.

• Add New QA Metrics - Added a comprehensive set of QA-specific metrics: bug lifecycle, QA stage flow, release quality, and severity metrics.

• GitHub Copilot Metrics Improvements - Enhanced the GitHub Copilot metrics with additional data points and accuracy improvements.

• Add Metrics API for Clients - Exposed a Metrics API endpoint for external client consumption.

• Filter Dummy Test PRs - Added regex-based filtering to exclude dummy/test PRs from metrics and reports, with retroactive effect. Docs: PR Exclusion.

• Lead Time Calculation Options - Added the ability to calculate Lead Time based on either merge date or deploy date. Docs: PR Exclusion.

• Metric Report Layout Changes - Updated the layout and structure of the Metric Report view.

• Report Layout - Improved the general report layout.

Integrations & Deployments

• Create GitHub OAuth Integration - Built a GitHub OAuth integration for authenticating users via GitHub.

• Create SSO Authentication Mechanism - Implemented SSO authentication support for enterprise login flows. Docs: SSO.

• Tag-Based Deploy Detection - Added support for detecting deployments via repository tags/releases.

• Ongoing GitHub Integration Improvements - Continued improvements to the GitHub integration for reliability and feature parity.

• Repository & Issue Tracking Collection Filters - Added filters to scope data by repository collections and issue tracking collections.

UI & Frontend

• New Group Filters - Introduced new group-level filters across the platform.

• Vendor ROI Page Changes - Updated the Vendor ROI page layout and content.

• PR Insights Lifecycle Component Changes - Updated the PR Insights lifecycle component UI.

Legacy → New Waydev Migrations

• Migrate Contributor Insights Page - Migrated the Contributor Insights page.

• Migrate Team Insights Page - Migrated the Team Insights page.

• Migrate Hygiene Page - Migrated the Hygiene page.

• Migrate PR Insights Collaboration & Resolution - Migrated the PR Insights Collaboration and Resolution views.

New platform can be accessed here: https://ai.waydev.co/login

AI Code to Production

Track AI-generated code across the delivery pipeline: accepted in IDE → committed → merged → deployed. View acceptance rate, merge rate, and deployment rate by tool, team, repository, and time period.

AI Token Usage

Measure token consumption across Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and Windsurf. Analyze usage by organization, team, and developer, including cost per tool and cost per PR.

AI Checkpoints

Get commit-level attribution for AI-assisted work. Each checkpoint captures the AI agent used, tokens consumed, and the percentage of AI-generated versus human-edited code.

AI ROI

Connect AI usage to delivery outcomes. Measure cost per PR, cost per shipped line, and tokens consumed versus code shipped.

Waydev Agent

Ask questions about your engineering data and get actionable answers. The agent supports trend analysis, forecasting, and recommendations for improving AI adoption and delivery performance.

Waydev MCP

Connect Waydev engineering intelligence to MCP-compatible clients. Supported clients include Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, VS Code, Windsurf, and other MCP clients.

Waydev Agent Skills

Customize the Waydev Agent with SKILL.md. Built-in skills include Executive Mode, Developer Experience Auditor, Resource Allocation, Token Optimization, Concise Mode, and Caveman.

Changelog

Improvements

1. Bird's-eye View 2.0: all metrics in one view

2. New metrics for displaying Backlog tickets. 

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Inconsistent Filter Behavior
• Fixed loading issues
• Fixed graph editing when creating a widget
• Fixed Targets creation

Changelog

Improvements

1. New AI Adoption integrations: Claude Code and Windsurf

2. Incidents & Releases in DORA metrics now also show the source

Bug Fixes

• Fixed dropdown not working when creating metric widgets in dashboards
• Fixed in progress surveys displaying “Survey Not Available” message
• Fixed FTE calculations

Changelog

Improvements

1. We've updated the AI predictability feature

• Redesigned UX
• Now using Claude Sonet AI
• Full ROI traceability

2. Groups replace Projects as the default view in Waydev. When creating a new Group, you can choose whether it will function as an Initiative, Workspace, or Project

Bug Fixes

• Fixed team filters to remain persistent across all pages

Changelog

Improvements

1. Improve Overall App Intuitivity

   • Multiple UX/UI enhancements across Setup, Studio, and Delivery sections for better navigation and clarity.
2. Fix Jira Transition Workflows from GitHub
3. Cleanup - Removed unused code references for performance and maintainability.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed Story Points Metrics not showing data for Azure Boards
2. Fixed Targets page not loading when creating a new target
3. Fixed Ticket Projects pagination
4. Fixed an issue with ticket types not displayed in the “Ticket Type Assignment” step for integrations.

 announcement improvement Release date: August 7th, 2025 @ ~12:00 Pacific Time (PT)

1. Added new Story Points & Tickets metrics
2. Added the ability to configure the fields used for Story Points
3. Added new activity metrics
4. Added new Total Time metrics
5. Added new Untraceable PRs metric
6. Better context for the calculation of Lead Time for Changes
7. Improved setup on all levels (repo, project, general) for DORA Metrics
8. Improved the functionality of the DORA Metrics table
9. Added new categories in the Status mapping section for tickets
10. Added the ability for users to edit default Roles
11. Reorganised the sidebar menu

1. Fixed traceability issue
2. Fixed project selection in Resource Allocation
3. Fixed graph showing wrong comparison period
4. Fixed Performance tab in Team Insights
5. Fixed a visual issue that showed newly generated reports stuck in pending