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Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation

By Mirco Hering, Dominica Degrandis, Nicole Forsgren

Metrics for DevOps Initiatives

Advancing the state of measurement practice is an important foundation for improving software delivery economics.

This paper summarizes a position on DevOps measurement that we intend to be a catalyst for accelerating more mature guidance on measuring and steering software delivery.

  • Publication Date October 1, 2015
  • Pages 37

Features

  • DevOps Metrics

    Advance your organization’s state of measurement practice to create an important foundation for improving software delivery.

  • Expert Authors

    The paper features expert guidance from nine industry leaders in the areas of software delivery, quality, and measurement.

  • Increase Trust

    Improved measurement can increase trust in software delivery by quantifying software progress and quality.

  • Quantifiable Results

    Improved measurement can also enable better decision-making and steering based on quantifiable metrics instead of qualitative opinions.

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Advancing the state of measurement practice is an important foundation for improving software delivery economics.

This paper summarizes a position on DevOps measurement that we intend to be a catalyst for accelerating more mature guidance on measuring and steering software delivery.

Mirco Hering
Dominica Degrandis
Nicole Forsgren
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Mirco Hering

Mirco Hering

For over ten years Mirco Hering has worked on accelerating software delivery through innovative approaches (what is now called DevOps) and six years ago started experimenting with Agile methods. He supports major public and private sector companies in Australia and overseas in their search for efficient IT delivery. Mirco also blogs about IT delivery at notafactoryanymore.com and speaks globally at conferences about Agile, DevOps and organizational psychology.

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Dominica Degrandis

Dominica Degrandis

Dominica DeGrandis is the foremost expert in Kanban Flow within the IT industry today. Her work has shown working IT teams how effectively improve workflow and optimize throughput to produce the best result throughout the value stream. Her passion involves the use of visual cues and transparency across teams and organizations to reveal mutually critical information. As Director of Training & Coaching at LeanKit, Dominica combines experience, practice and theory to help teams level up their capability. She blogs at ddegrandis.com and tweets at @dominicad.

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Nicole Forsgren

Nicole Forsgren

Nicole Forsgren, PhD, is Partner at Microsoft Research. She is author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book Accelerate, and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

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