metrics

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.

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.

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.

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.

Are you leading teams and want to make sure they are productive? There are many ways to do that. Many are doing it incorrectly.

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

One of the most common pain points to anyone moving to modern delivery is, “how do we know we are doing it correctly?