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Adding more headcount to an organization is an expensive band-aid fix that substantially increases the complexity of the system and often slows it down. Read this candid perspective to learn how software engineering teams can "do more with less".
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Since Accelerate was published in 2018, “DORA metrics” have become increasingly popular for measuring IT performance. More vendors are creating dashboards or integrating these metrics into their existing pipeline tooling. However, the context is getting lost in the race to deliver these features to customers.
Bryan Finster (Guest)
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The State of OSS Report - We decided to evaluate top open-source projects from GitHub on their EngOps performance, and, by treating an open-source community as an engineering organization, see how they compare to their closed source counterparts. Some interesting findings in here.
Chris Rupley
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Lead time measures the velocity of an engineering organization in delivering software — from idea to production. Shorter lead times mean shorter turnaround times for new feature requests, incident resolutions, bug fixes etc. In this blog post, learn more about lead time and cycle time for software delivery, and how to measure them.
Shubha Nabar
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Value Stream Management is a lean business practice that focuses on increasing the flow of value from customer demand to delivery. This article will provide a brief overview of value stream management, explain how value stream flow can be measured, and discuss how to get started with value stream management.
Mahesh Iyer
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One of the predictive metrics for measuring your pace of software delivery is sprint velocity. Calculating this metric doesn't magically make your engineering team more productive overnight, but it does help you better plan projects and predict realistic timelines.
Mahesh Iyer
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What are the four key DORA metrics? Why do they matter? How can you measure them?
Shubha Nabar