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Metrics
What to measure on the way to continuous delivery, and what not to. 7 stops, oldest first.
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Time to Main - Measuring Continuous Integration
A.k.a "Time to Trunk". How do you measure your progress on the way to continuous integration(we're not even discussing delivery yet)? How do you know you are progressing towards the goal incrementally? Assuming you're…
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DevOps Metric Definition: Mean time to change (MTTC) (vs change lead time)
Also called "time from concept to cash". Important to : Everyone, especially the CEO, CIO and CTO. Definition : How long does it take a new average feature, idea, fix or any other kind of change to get into a paying…
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DevOps Metric: Mean time to recovery (MTTR) Definition and reasoning
Important to: VP Operations, CTO Definition :When a production failure occurs, how long does it take to recover from the issue? How to measure: Different between systems. Common metric is production downtime avg over…
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DevOps Metric: Frequency of Releases Definition
Important to : Release Manager, CIO Definition : How often an official release is deployed to production, in paying customer's hands How to measure : If no pipeline: release schedule. Otherwise, history data for…
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DevOps Metric: Amount of Defects and Issues: definition.
Important to : VP of QA, Operations Definition : How many bugs or tickets are found in production/ how many recurring bugs in production. As well as - how many deployment issues during release are encountered. How to…
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Ten Devops & Agility Metrics to Check at the Team Level
When I coach teams that are getting into the DevOps and Continuous Delivery mindset, a common question that comes up is "What should we measure?" Measuring is a core piece of change - how do you know you're progressing…
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A Metrics Framework for Continuous Delivery
Here’s a framework I like to start with when I discuss what types of metrics can help or harm you in your journey to continuous delivery: Lagging Indicators At the organizational level, unit tests are usually part of a…