What Git Metrics Can Tell You About Your Team

DORA metrics are the defacto new standard for how DevOps organizations measure success. This introductory talk will give a general audience a sense of why this approach works and simple steps they can take, with their already existing data and tools, to harvest the benefits of this approach.

As Lord Kelvin said: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” It is vital to the success of every team that you have metrics and those metrics are simple to track. But what do you measure? For DevOps teams at least, the answer is more and more clear thanks to the work by Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment, also known as DORA.

Even if you are not ready to take the full plunge to adopt all the practices and methodologies they prescribe, taking stock of the surprising amount of data that already exists around your DevOps practice is an incredible step towards building a more manageable team with overall better success.

In this session we will cover:

• Why DevOps success is hard to quantify
• What the DORA team uncovered
• How to do a base level assessment of your current path
• What options exist to better capture data and tune your organizational practices

Git is so ubiquitous, but also still a black box and mystery to many teams, especially managers. This talk is about empowering people to look deeper at the tools they have and leverage the existing data to make better plans, decisions, and act with a dircetional purpose. I have been helping develop data tools at GitKraken and this is an area I have become passionate about.