
Driving DevOps with Value Stream Management
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So far, the metrics assigned to the activities are relatively traditional Lean metrics, applicable across any organizational value stream. However, Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, in the book Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, identified a shortlist of key metrics that predict software delivery performance (2018, pages 17-19). Based on their detailed statistical analysis, spanning 23,000 survey responses across 2,000 unique organizations, they found that the following four measures are most critical in measuring software delivery performance:
Their work continued under the direction of the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team. This Google research group conducted a 6-year program to measure and understand DevOps practices and capabilities across the IT industry. DORA&apos...