Software as a services (SAAS) services featuring software for software development workflow automation and optimization, for improving the productivity and efficiency of software development teams and organizations, for managing, monitoring, planning, and optimizing software development projects and value streams, for monitoring and measuring key performance indicators and optimizing performance of software development, for reducing software development time and mitigating software development bottlenecks, for inspecting software development processes and procedures, and identifying, inspecting, mitigating, and resolving flaws and inefficiencies, for enabling efficient development of software features, for measuring and improving software developer performance, for providing and analyzing software development pipeline metrics, for identifying and tracking software development goals, for tracking and timing software development project deliverables, for ensuring the quality of software code and data integrity, for efficiently implementing software code updates, for connecting and correlating data among different software development tools, for setting and tracking software development improvement goals, for mapping investment in software development projects, and for reporting data analytics regarding all of the foregoing