Engineering metrics can be misleading when they are viewed in isolation, but by pairing certain key metrics together, engineering leaders can unlock the full picture of their software development pipeline.
Incorporating metrics into your leadership strategy can help fine tune engineering processes, offering objective measurements to check assumptions and spot opportunities to improve DevOps practices.
Just as important as surfacing the right data is how engineering leaders interpret that data and use it to make decisions. That’s why analyzing data in context with other metrics is crucial to gaining a holistic picture of the software development pipeline. Then, rather than optimizing for a single metric, an ideal approach looks to balance multiple aspects of delivery.
