LeadDev Together

Session 5 : Measuring success

Session 5 homework

During the session, we looked at measuring what matters by thinking about the problems you need to solve, the desired outcomes, and the behaviours you want to incentivize and disincentivize within your engineering organization.

For your homework this week:
We suggest exploring some of the points raised during session 5 in more detail with further reading.

1. Read this article about how metrics can be used to take back your software delivery and think about the metrics you want to measure and why.

2. Take the DORA DevOps quick-check for your team and discover which DevOps capabilities you should focus on to improve.

📚 Further reading
Get your hands on a copy of this great book 'Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations' by Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim that explores how technology can be applied to drive business value.

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Additional Resources

You’ll find more resources below, including speakers’ slides and downloadable worksheets.

Talks and Panels

Metrics - a primer, to drive precision, speed, quality & impact
Video

Metrics - a primer, to drive precision, speed, quality & impact

Smruti Patel
Smruti Patel
15 mins
Empower your teams to do their best work
Video

Empower your teams to do their best work

Dalia Havens
Dalia Havens
15 mins
Metrics to measure developer experience
Video

Metrics to measure developer experience

Timothy Cochran
Timothy Cochran
15 mins
Measuring success in your organization
Video

Measuring success in your organization

Holly garrett
Holly Garrett
Steph Egan
Steph Egan
+3 more