One company I worked at hired a person who’s sole responsibility was metrics and the reporting of metrics. As you can imagine, there were plenty of metrics flying around.
You probably don’t want to have more than three metrics that a team has to focus on. Here’s some metrics to select from.
- Lead time and cycle time trends
- Escaped defects
- Code health
- Outage trends
- After a feature has been developed, how long does it take to deploy to production