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Management: 4 Key Metrics
Mar 15, 2022
The problem
How to measure the performance of a software development team
The solution
- Lead Time for Changes: how long does it take for a commit to get to production
- Deployment Frequency: how often does a team release to production
- Change Failure Rate: what is the percentage of deployments causing failure in production
- Mean Time to Restore: how long does it take to recover from a failure in production
Based on these metrics, teams can be categorized in groups from low performing to elite.
The metrics above are not a means to an end. Teams are at different levels of their devops journey, so the main goal is have iterative improvement. Those metrics should not be used to compare teams.
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