Chapter 1: Metrics That Matter
The hardest part when implementing DevOps is a shift in conversations with management. Management is used to asking the following questions:
- How much will it cost?
- How much will we earn from it?
From a management perspective, these are reasonable questions. But in a DevOps world, they can be toxic and can lead to a large amount of planning upfront if they are answered at the wrong time and in the wrong way. In this chapter, I'll show you metrics that can shift discussions with management away from efforts toward general engineering velocity and developer productivity.
I'll explain how to measure engineering velocity and developer productivity and how to make your DevOps acceleration measurable.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Why accelerate?
- Engineering velocity
- High-performance companies
- Measuring metrics that matter
- The SPACE) framework for developer productivity
- Objectives and key results
