Four Key Metrics for a Software Development Team

Article: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/using-the-four-keys-to-measure-your-devops-performance

Notes

• Key metrics:

  • Deployment Frequency — How often an organization successfully releases to production.

  • Lead Time for Changes — The amount of time it takes a commit to get into production.

  • Change Failure Rate — The percentage of deployments causing a failure in production.

  • Time to Restore Service — How long it takes an organization to recover from a failure in production.

• The metrics describe infrastructure platform maturity. On-demand deployments with lead time under 1 hour, and failure rate under 15% of deployments is considered “Elite”.