Development and delivery practices for team success

Most metrics for measuring developer productivity, such as lines of code or issues closed, are notoriously ineffective. But the research in the excellent State of Devops report shows that, rather than focusing on local metrics and individual developer performance, it is better to look at overall development and delivery practices. Specifically, there are metrics that predict and reflect a team’s ability to successfully deliver working software into production, including deployment frequency, and the mean time to restore service after an incident. This articles discusses why some metrics are useless, and takes a closer look at the recommendations in the 2019 State of Devops report.

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Report Summary: Accelerate State of DevOps 2019

This is an abridged version of The Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019; essentially a cut and paste of the most salient parts. The original is about 18,000 words; This is about 2,500 words.

I highly recommend reading the original in its entirety, if you have time, and I’m a big fan of the Accelerate book too. As with all the other summaries I create, this just as as way to help me digest and understand an excellent article.

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Tags: accelerate, devops, fourkeymetrics, jezhumble, nicoleforsgren, stateofdevops, summary