Creating rollups at an organizational level

Regardless of if you are practicing DevOps in your organization or not, clear communication is one of the keys to success. This is also true when it comes to communication of your key performance indicators (KPIs).

You must ensure that the data you present back to leaders within your organization is clear, concise, and tells the appropriate picture about the performance within your organization.

In DevOps, especially when you are communicating organization-wide progress, you will first have to go on a journey of explaining what the metrics mean to the wider business. It's not immediately obvious what the metrics mean and show.

Important note

Try to display clear wording to executive leaders, even if this means changing the explanation of the metric. It's easier to relate it to something they understand than having to face questions on how it's measured, why you measure it, and more in executive meetings.

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