DevOps improves software delivery speed and quality through a list of practices that pursue an agile mindset. The terms that first come to mind when you mention DevOps are continuous integration,continuous delivery and deployment , collaboration, automation, and monitoring.

DevOps means different things to different teams. Some teams are all about automation, while others do things manually and still consider that they are doing DevOps. Some consider it a culture and a mindset-shaper.

As DevOps revolves around continuous delivery and fast code shipping, it’s crucial to act quickly without any significant errors. That’s why it’s vital to track the DevOps metrics that can help you achieve this.

To succeed in DevOps, teams use many different tools. That’s why different DevOps metrics are essential for different dev teams.

So, before even beginning with DevOps, your team should determine what DevOps means for them. What is more, teams should also detect their biggest DevOps challenges. Then, it will be easier for them to decide which DevOps metrics they need to monitor more actively to improve and create a more quality software delivery process.

_Here are the critical DevOps metrics most teams find important: _

Deployment frequency

It is important to develop and sustain a competitive advantage to offer updates, new functionalities, and technical enhancements with greater quality and accuracy. The opportunity to increase delivery intensity contributes to increased flexibility and better adherence to evolving consumers’ requirements.

The aim should be to allow smaller deployments as frequently as possible. When deployments are smaller, software testing and deployment are much more comfortable.

Regularly measuring deployment frequency will offer greater visibility into which improvements were more successful and which segments require change. A rapid drop in frequency can indicate that other tasks or manual actions are disrupting the workflow. For sustainable growth and development, deployment frequency indicators that suggest minor yet constant changes are optimal.

Going one step further and making testing more manageable can measure both production and non-production deployments. This way, you’ll be able to determine the frequency of your deployments to QA and optimize for early and smaller deployments.

_Adding this metric is in Microtica’s roadmap. As Microtica provides a build and deployment timeline, we’re planning to add a feature to show you your build and deployment frequency. _

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