CHAPTER 29

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Metrics and ALM Assessment

This is the final chapter in our assessment and metrics series. We will cover some metrics and reports for release management, including the build process.

Metrics

Much of the metrics we can get from TFS are presented as reports. Using these figures as KPIs we can easily compare our progress when it comes to build quality.

A quick look at Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) (http://www.itilnews.com/ITIL_v3_Suggested_Release_and_Deployment_KPIs.html) will give us some other KPIs we can use. If we want to use them we might need to create our own reports to automate the retrieval of this information. ...

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