The two best measures to showshared successacross technology teams arethroughputandstability:
Throughput(deployment frequency, lead time): Measures how fast teams deliver value.
Stability(change failure rate, MTTR): Measures how reliably systems operate.
Why these two?
Focusing onbothensures teams deliver quicklyandsafely. High throughput without stability causes outages; stability without throughput slows business.
Other options:
Deployment frequency + change lead/cycle time: Both are throughput measures, missing stability.
MTTR + change failure rate: Both are stability, missing throughput.
Employee retention and NPS: People measures, not delivery.
Extract-style reference:
“High performers in DevOps exhibit both high throughput (deployments per day) and high stability (low failure rates, fast recovery), proving it’s possible to achieve both.”
—Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, Ch. 2
PeopleCert DevOps Foundation v3.6:Shared success is about flowandreliability, not just one or the other.
