DevOps without measuring the right metrics will be a failure

Abdul Jaleel Kavungal
3 min readFeb 12, 2021
Image: Azure DevOps dashboard

DevOps — not easy, but we can’t afford to not to do it.

DevOps enables faster delivery, better quality of the software and overall engineering efficiency. But by simply declaring that moving toward DevOps principles without a defined way for tracking success won’t help to succeed with DevOps.

Today every organisation increasingly rely on their ability to deliver and operate software systems to achieve their goals. To compare the performance on the delivery performance, the latest State-of-DevOps report recommends five measures as the key parameters for software delivery and operational (SDO) performance:

✅. Deployment Frequency: How often changes are released into production

✅. Lead time for change: How long it takes to deploy code to production from the time it is committed to code repo

✅. Time to restore service: How long it takes to restore a service incident that impacts its users

✅. Change failure rate: What % of changes to production result in service failures

✅. Availability: How well teams define the availability of their systems and track them effectively

The right and optimal level of DevOps/DevSecOps adoption is the key to increasing SDO performance…

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Abdul Jaleel Kavungal

No one is ready for the future, the best way to predict the future is observe the present and BUILD the future.