How to Measure Success for Development Teams

As software engineers, how do we know if our ideas make things better or worse? How can we tell if changes to our organisation, culture or technology are effective? We can measure lines of code, KPIs, story-points or test-coverage for our code, but do these measures really make development teams better at what they do?

In Continuous Delivery, we have some measures that work. In Continuous Delivery, we measure things that really matter and are hard to game. Measures that can also tell us if a change to our daily stand-ups, or the use of a new programming language, makes a difference.

Even more powerfully, high-scores in these measurements are correlated with top-performing development teams in our industry. So what are the best software engineering metrics for success in the efficient production of higher-quality code and a winning software?

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Useful Books on this topic:
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"Accelerate, The Science of Lean Software and DevOps", by Nicole Fosgren, Jez Humble & Gene Kim
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"Measuring Continuous Delivery”, By Steve Smith
➡️ https://leanpub.com/measuringcontinuo...

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