Measuring success
Defining targets
2min
Targets can be set on all components of engineering success.
- Targets on alignment are desired levels of efforts allocation. For example, you may define success as less than 20% of efforts allocated to maintenance, and over 50% of efforts allocated to company goals.
- Targets on delivery are desired levels for the delivery performance metrics (i.e., lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery, and change failure rate).
Targets configuration
Targets are set at the team level and optionally cascade to sub-teams. Each team inherits targets from its ancestors and may define its own override. An organization may set a target for alignment of 20% of efforts allocated to maintenance, but have a local override for the team maintaining a legacy platform (which is expected to spend more on maintenance than other teams).
Setting an allocation target
Updated 20 Mar 2023
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