Delivery Indicators: Speed vs Stability

To understand the health of a delivery pipeline, teams must track specific performance indicators. These indicators help show how fast a team can deliver value and how stable their software is in production:

• Lead time: The amount of elapsed time it takes for a code commit to successfully deploy to production.
• Deployment frequency: A measure of how often a team successfully releases new updates to their users.
• Change failure rate: The percentage of deployments that result in a failure or require immediate rollback in production.
• Mean time to recovery: The average time it takes to restore a service after an unexpected failure or outage occurs.