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Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition
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Continuous Delivery and DevOps - A Quickstart Guide - Third Edition

by Paul Swartout
October 2018
Beginner
270 pages
7h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cycle and lead times

These are more time-based metrics that are very useful to measure the progress and effectiveness of the changes you make during CD and DevOps adoption. These two metrics are pretty simple to understand:

  • Lead time: The measurement of time between a requirement being identified and it being delivered to a customer
  • Cycle time: The time between someone starting work on a given work item/story/defect and it being delivered to a customer

The following diagram should give you a better idea of what this means:

The observant among you may notice that for defects, the lead time is pretty much the same as for MTTR, which means ...

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