Four critical DevOps metrics Delivery time for changes. One of the fundamental DevOps metrics to track is the delivery time of changes. The change error rate is the percentage of code changes that require urgent corrections or other solutions after production. After six years of research, the DevOps Research and Evaluation Team (DORA) has identified four key parameters that indicate the performance of software delivery.
Four Keys allows you to collect data from your development environment (such as GitHub or GitLab) and compile it into a dashboard showing these key metrics. The panel shows the four metrics with daily system data, as well as a current snapshot of the last 90 days. Delivery time and frequency of implementation, the first two metrics of Accelerate, are pace metrics in the lean manufacturing industry. However, investing more time analyzing these metrics helped us to better understand the software delivery process and what's important.
The research identified that only four key metrics distinguish the performance of various technology organizations. The mechanics of how metrics drive organizational performance are also well known and have been rationalized by industry leaders, such as Martin Fowler. This research and statistical analysis have demonstrated a clear relationship between high delivery performance and these metrics; they provide an excellent leading indicator of the performance of a team, or even an entire delivery organization. In the same way, these objectives are not main indicators or local metrics that tell you if you need to increase, for example, unit test coverage or reduce construction times, but rather they measure the general engineering status of a team.
From the point of view of metrics, I can say that the primary cause of the longest system interruptions was the infrastructure provider. Each of these North Star metrics is comprised of several key indicators that allow you to break down and understand how to optimize a process at a more local level. This research and statistical analysis have demonstrated a clear relationship between high delivery performance and these metrics; they provide an excellent leading indicator of the performance of a delivery organization as a whole. By analyzing these metrics and digging deeper into inefficient areas, you can ensure that you're constantly optimizing things that will improve the overall health of your team from an engineering standpoint, rather than in a local area that won't bring any improvement.
The metric focuses on the company's technical capacity and evaluates the time spent implementing, testing, and delivering code for a specific product or function.
