Metrics provide visibility into the performance of software development processes and enable teams to determine areas for improvement. Without metrics, it's challenging to identify inefficiencies or even the root cause of issues. With metrics, teams can benchmark and track progress, set goals, and measure the effectiveness of changes made to processes and tools.
Metrics also enable data-driven decision-making. Instead of relying on hunches or intuition, teams can use data to assess the impact of their decisions on the overall performance of the software development life cycle.
WayFinder seamlessly connects your product's Source Control, Pipeline and Incident Management tools and indicates your software engineering performance, benchmarked against industry standard, as supported by DORA.
Performance and Impact
Action Plans
WayFinder doesn't just produce the metrics, it provides actionable insights to help teams improve in the form of an Action Plan. An Action Plan provides background information on why a technical practice has been recommended, outlines the outcomes and risks, and provides a detailed set of steps with concrete examples.
Impact on Metrics
The WayFinder Recommendation Engine uses the data collected over time, identifies the lowest performing metric and then pairs it with the most appropriate Action Plan. Each product and organisation is different, so a number of recommendations are available in any given month.
The impact on the metric (ie. Change Failure Rate) only becomes material when an Experiment is initiated. An Experiment takes a snapshot of the metric before the experiment starts and then shows the chosen metric performance during the 6 week experiment window, allowing teams to stick to the plan or course correct if necessary.
Impact on Business
WayFinder will always demonstrate the link between the metric, the desired improvement and the overall impact it will have on the business.
Each metric may have a different impact on the business. For example, an improvement in the Change Failure Rate will lead to an improve reliability, which means enhanced operational efficiency, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced maintenance costs. In other words, organisations save money!
