Measuring Value Stream Performance
In our last chapter, we started our exploration of Value Streams by referring to the Three Ways found in The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. The First Way was about achieving flow through the establishment of Value Streams.
This chapter moves beyond the establishment of Value Streams to verify their performance. For this chapter, we look at the Second Way: amplify feedback loops. To follow the Second Way, we need to look for and pay attention to the feedback from our Value Streams.
We can use metrics as a feedback mechanism. There are a few metrics frameworks that have emerged, such as DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics and the Flow Framework®, that can function as feedback loops.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Creating good measurements
- Looking at the DORA metrics
- Looking at the Flow Framework® and Flow Metrics
- Understanding measurements...
