Measure Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Culture to Optimize DevOps Transformation
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.
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There is a hunger for better measurements. DevOps teams and professionals want to push new ideas and new ways of doing things. Metrics objectively help teams distinguish between improvements and unproductive changes. We feel measurements remove subjectivity, improve excellence, focus on strategy, and create predictability. Measurements work best when they drive crucial conversations and help teams improve. Measurements are undermined when they are driven as an evaluation of performance and impact. People will game the system or distort a metric if it focuses on personal performance rather than team performance.
contents
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Principles
CHAPTER 2: Scenarios
CHAPTER 3: The Value of Measurement
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Contributors
Dominica DeGrandis, Director, Learning & Development, LeanKit
Nicole Forsgren, PhD, Director Organizational Performance and Analytics, Chef
Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner, Visual Studio Cloud Services, Microsoft
Mirco Hering, DevOps Lead APAC, Accenture
Mark Michaelis, Chief Technical Architect, IntelliTect
Chivas Nambiar, Director DevOps Platform Engineering, Verizon
Eric Passmore, CTO MSN, Microsoft
Walker Royce, Software Economist
Jeff Weber, Managing Director, Protiviti -
Pages: 37
14 color images
Format: PDF
Publication: October 1, 2015
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