metrics

The Metrics are Lying

The Metrics are Lying

I was talking to a friend the other day about how her management is tracking teams’ “maturity” using “DORA Metrics”, the four measures the correlate with high-performing organizations mentioned by DevOps Research and Assessment in “Accelerate” and the State of DevOps reports.
Measuring Goals

Measuring Goals

In my last post, we talked about common metric anti-patterns that are focused on the process instead of value. In this installment, we will cover alternatives that can help us remove waste and improve the flow of value.
Metric Mythconceptions

Metric Mythconceptions

As we try to improve the flow of value to the end-user, the first item that usually gains focus is the productivity of development teams and how to measure it.
The Value of Code Coverage

The Value of Code Coverage

Code coverage is the measure of the amount of code being executed by tests. It’s an easy number to measure and a minimum value is frequently set as a goal.
Measuring to Fail

Measuring to Fail

Are you leading teams and want to make sure they are productive? There are many ways to do that. Many are doing it incorrectly.
You Can't Measure Quality

You Can't Measure Quality

“We want our teams to be more efficient and deliver higher quality!” “We sure do, how will we measure it?