Throughout this chapter, you learned that capturing data and measurements is important, as this gives you a clear indication of whether things are working and progressing in the way you planned and hoped for. Whether you're interested in the gains in software quality over time, reduction in bugs, performance of your software platform, or number of environmental issues in the past quarter, you need data. Lots of data. Complementing this with business-focused and real-world data will only add value and provide you with more insight into how things are going.

You are striving to encourage openness and honesty throughout the organization (see the Chapter 4, Culture and Behaviors); therefore, sharing all of the metrics and data you collect during your CD and DevOps implementation will provide a high degree of transparency. At the end of the day, every part of any business...