Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering 2021

One Metric to Rule them All: Cycle Time

If you only measure one metric this is it: Cycle Time. It is probably the most underrated and least understood metric in engineering. Yet this is the metric that comprises the most important aspects to measure in your engineering process. Here’s why. High performing teams know it’s a marathon and not a sprint, that a steady and swift flow of value wins out in the end, and shipping many small...