Metrics: Three metrics for measuring engineering speed (company / team velocity)

Three metrics for measuring engineering speed - SD Times

Quoting:
"Companies want to deliver high quality software fast, but how fast is fast enough? A recently released report by CircleCI found three important development metrics to predict an organization’s velocity and maturity.
The metrics are:

• mainline branch stability, 
• deploy time and 
• deploy frequency.

“Most teams have no idea what speed actually means,” said Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI. “They are deploying and they are doing it at a rate that feels good to them, but they don’t necessarily know where that stacks up compared to the rest of the market.”

The study looked at a sample of organizations built on the CircleCI’s cloud platform from June 1 to July 31, 2017."

BOOK: Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (Douglas C. Montgomery)

AKA as "the bible" for statistical concepts (now in the 7th edition):

• Statistical Quality Control: Douglas C. Montgomery: 9781118146811: Amazon.com: Books (7th edition)
• Amazon.com: Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (0352030000810): Douglas C. Montgomery: Books (6th edition) 

Quoting: 

"The trusted guide to the statistical methods for quality control.

Quality control and improvement is more than an engineering concern. Quality has become a major business strategy for increasing productivity and gaining competitive advantage. Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Sixth Edition gives you a sound understanding of the principles of statistical quality control (SQC) and how to apply them in a variety of situations for quality control and improvement.

With this text, you'll learn how to apply state-of-the-art techniques for statistical process monitoring and control, design experiments for process characterization and optimization, conduct process robustness studies, and implement quality management techniques.

You'll appreciate the significant updates in the Sixth Edition including:
* In-depth attention to DMAIC, the problem-solving strategy of Six Sigma. It will give you an excellent framework to use in conducting quality improvement projects.
* New examples that illustrate applications of statistical quality improvement techniques in non-manufacturing settings. Many examples and exercises are based on real data.
* New developments in the area of measurement systems analysis
* New features of Minitab V15 incorporated into the text

* Numerous new examples, exercises, problems, and techniques to enhance your absorption of the material"

PS. Now minitab is at V18. Minitab is a statistical package software (similar to SPSS).