Benchmarking between teams
Scorecards are the best tool to benchmark the team’s performance to take action against objectives defined in the scorecard. It will allow you to find the teams who are performing and meeting the expectations versus teams that are maintaining the status quo. Depending on your organization’s goal, you can collaboratively create scorecards to measure teams. Here are three scorecards as an example:
- Count of instances (VMs) versus containers versus serverless
- Count of resources that have auto-scale policies
- Reserved instances coverage
The first scorecard is Instances (VMs) versus Containers versus Serverless. This scorecard tells us which teams are still using IaaS VMs for their workloads. It’s a generally accepted practice that you can save money in the cloud by stepping up one level. If you are using IaaS VMs, refactor your application so that it can run on containers. If you are running your apps in containers, explore...
