Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Tag: metrics

đź”— Measuring an engineering organization. January 3rd, 2023

For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report monthly engineering metrics, what should I actually include in the report? Any discussion about measuring engineering organizations quickly unearths strong opinions. Anything but sprint points! Just use SPACE!…

DORA Metrics: the Right Answer to measuring engineering team performance June 17th, 2022

“What metrics should I use to measure my engineering team’s performance?” Believe it not, there is a Right Answer: the so-called DORA metrics.