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SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners

You're reading from   SAFe® for DevOps Practitioners Implement robust, secure, and scaled Agile solutions with the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231426
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introducing SAFe® and DevOps 2. Part 1 Approach – A Look at DevOps and SAFe® through CALMR FREE CHAPTER
3. Chapter 2: Culture of Shared Responsibility 4. Chapter 3: Automation for Efficiency and Quality 5. Chapter 4: Leveraging Lean Flow to Keep the Work Moving 6. Chapter 5: Measuring the Process and Solution 7. Chapter 6: Recovering from Production Failures 8. Part 2:Implement – Moving Toward Value Streams
9. Chapter 7: Mapping Your Value Streams 10. Chapter 8: Measuring Value Stream Performance 11. Chapter 9: Moving to the Future with Continuous Learning 12. Part 3:Optimize – Enabling a Continuous Delivery Pipeline
13. Chapter 10: Continuous Exploration and Finding New Features 14. Chapter 11: Continuous Integration of Solution Development 15. Chapter 12: Continuous Deployment to Production 16. Chapter 13: Releasing on Demand to Realize Value 17. Chapter 14: Avoiding Pitfalls and Diving into the Future 18. Assessment Answers 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating good measurements

We originally saw the different types of measurements we can apply in Chapter 5, Measuring the Process and Solution, where we looked at measurements in three of the following areas:

  • The development process
  • The environment
  • The customer value delivered

The set of metrics that can adequately cover these three areas of measurement are called Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

KPIs are metrics chosen to determine whether an individual, a team, a Value Stream or an Agile Release Train (ART) in our case is meeting its goals. KPIs are evaluated both at specific points in time as well as over a given time period to highlight trends and movements away from or toward a goal.

KPIs should be objective measurements and not subject to opinion or interpretation.

While looking at these measurements, we cautioned against using vanity metrics, which are measurements that yield good information but don’t really supply any meaningful data...

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