Cycle Time is an end-to-end measure of your software development productivity. It measures how long it takes for an idea to go from development to being in front of users in production. Many notable engineering teams (like Google and Spotify) have...

SPACE is an emergent model for measuring developer productivity. The lead researcher who helped develop the framework is Dr. Nicole Forsgren, who previously led the work on creating the DORA Four Key Metrics (Accelerate book) for DevOps teams. T...

The Accelerate Book In the book, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim studied what made separated strong performing technol...

Time To First "Hello, World!" (TTFHW, sometimes known as bootstrap time ) represents the time it takes for a user to onboard to an API, framework, project or team. How long it takes for a developer to get started and begin being productive in an ...

Median Full Resolution Time is an important quality metric for EngProd teams. It acts as a guard rail when measuring speed metrics like Cycle Time . Much of the work involved in software engineering is balancing the risk and reward of technical ...

Developer analytics tools often contain a code quality metric called "churn", this is defined as "code which is deleted or rewritten shortly after being written" (e.g. in less than 3 weeks). This metric is then used to compute an "efficiency" metric...