Measure Lead Time for the Business

When teams adopting DevOps ask me, “What should we measure to know that we’re improving?” I have reflexively rattled off the metrics from Accelerate. Throughput Deployment frequency (frequency an app is released) Lead Time (time from code commit to working in prod) Stability Change failure rate (changes requiring a subsequent fix or causing outage) Time to restore (typical restoration time when an outage occurs) These broadly make sense and point to a high degree of automated deployment, testing, and robust monitoring.

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