--- title: "Metrics line" url: "https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/metrics.md" canonical: "https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/metrics" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Metrics: What to measure on the way to continuous delivery, and what not to. Articles by Roy Osherove on Pipeline Driven." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Metrics line Metrics: What to measure on the way to continuous delivery, and what not to. Articles by Roy Osherove on Pipeline Driven. HTML: https://pipelinedriven.org/article/line/metrics · 7 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://pipelinedriven.org/llms.txt) - [Time to Main - Measuring Continuous Integration](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/2015/5/15/time-to-main-measuring-continuous-integration.md) (2015-05-15): 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… - [DevOps Metric Definition: Mean time to change (MTTC) (vs change lead time)](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-definition-mean-time-to-change-mttc-vs-change-lead-time.md) (2016-10-29): 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,… - [DevOps Metric: Mean time to recovery (MTTR) Definition and reasoning](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-mean-time-to-recovery-mttr-definition-and-reasoning.md) (2016-10-29): 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… - [DevOps Metric: Frequency of Releases Definition](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-frequency-of-releases-definition.md) (2016-10-29): 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… - [DevOps Metric: Amount of Defects and Issues: definition.](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/devops-metric-amount-of-defects-and-issues-definition.md) (2016-10-29): 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… - [Ten Devops & Agility Metrics to Check at the Team Level](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/ten-ideas-for-things-you-can-measure-as-a-team-on-your-devops-journey.md) (2018-03-10): 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… - [A Metrics Framework for Continuous Delivery](https://pipelinedriven.org/article/a-metrics-framework-for-continuous-delivery.md) (2022-07-11): 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… --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/