Common metrics used to measure success
Firstly, it's important to know why to measure your performance. I speak to many leaders of various businesses, and a frightening trend is that they all think measuring success is a tool that can be used to help with performance management.
The reality is that tracking of performance is a tool for improvement. Continuous improvement (CI) is a key pillar of DevOps, so if you have no idea how you are performing, how can you improve? Improvement should be the main goal of the metrics used in DevOps, ones that can drive tangible results and highlight growth areas.
Before we look at the metrics you can use, I like to put them into three buckets. Then, as you will see later in the chapter, depending on the type of team you are running, you can pick appropriate metrics from each bucket to look at your performance and generate useful methods of feedback. The number of metrics you pick from each bucket depends on your goals and your style of...