Comments on: Visible Ops: Continuous Improvement

By: Meanwhile: More Meta-Metrics

Meanwhile: More Meta-Metrics — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:50:43 +0000

[...] time ago, Matthias wrote great a blog post about some of the metrics that can reasonably profile the effectiveness of web operations, taken [...]

By: Dan Ackerson

Dan Ackerson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:21:45 +0000

Here, here! The adoption of lean manufacturing ideas in software development processes is one of the biggest drivers of improvement – you can only achieve continuous flow after intense analysis of your production floor metrics.

Thanks for jumping in and sharing, Ed!

By: Ed Birch

Ed Birch — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:57:16 +0000

This is an exciting article. Currently I am working to establishing teams that design and adopt continuous improvement programs that focus on energy efficiency. One of the items that separate successful teams from the also ran are those that are able to identify and adopt metrics in the early stages of development. Without performance metrics the team loses focus and effectiveness.

In the manufacturing world the "Release" metrics would be known as takt time - the time it takes to produce a product to meet demand. "Resolution" would be response time metric in manufacturing - focusing on response time allows the organization to measure their commitment to making corrections. Where is their true passion?

Remember we measure what we treasure! If we make these measurements visible, it will get improved.