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Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics. Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. I agree completely: If it makes you feel better to give me that number in passing, okay, go ahead, but don’t put any emphasis on it. MORE
Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST The Must Have Metrics Any #DevOps and #SRE Manager Should Look At [link] pic.twitter.com/HvPxIODNUI. This metric clearly represents how successful the team is in accomplishing that goal. MORE
"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it—a costly myth." " –W. Edwards Deming The Deming quote at the top of this post is often twisted into something worthy of Frederick Taylor: "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it." " Deming would disagree. You can—in fact, must—manage things… Agility MORE
Senior executives in your company are looking to a formal, integrated dashboard to enable them to be able to monitor key company metrics. In the past, your senior executives including the CFO may have been content to focus only on the high-level metrics. MORE
They’ve been using just two DevOps metrics , the number of releases made per month and the number of incidents raised per month. Figure 1 Indicative figures showing positive jaws of DevOps metrics: releases vs incidents. DevOps Metrics #1 – Release frequency. MORE
While DevOps has come a long way in terms of understanding and adoption, 2019 is going to be marked by a concerted effort to applying metrics to DevOps processes. The post CloudBees: 2019 to Be Year of DevOps Metrics appeared first on DevOps.com. MORE
When it comes to storing metrics and events, a time series database provides a number of benefits that general purposes databases don’t, including high velocity, range scans over large chunks of data, efficient data eviction and compression. MORE
That is why Bright added job-based metrics to their Bright Cluster Manager solutions. Users can now select a job that is currently running (or has recently run) and get metrics for both nodes and jobs. CPU usage metrics. Memory usage metrics. Katie Kennedy. MORE
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The metrics associated with their use would have to be reliable and repeatable. Big Data News analytics infonomics Metrics valueDennis D. McDonald. Information value. CTOvision.com recently posted an interesting article by John Mancini titled Putting a value on your company information. In it Mancini says, it is imperative that standard models to measure information are introduced as a matter of urgency in this digital age. MORE
In this blog post series, we are going to show how the charts and metrics on Cloudera Manager (CM) can help troubleshoot Impala performance issues. The post Assessment of Apache Impala Performance using Cloudera Manager Metrics – Part 1 of 3 appeared first on Cloudera Engineering Blog. CDH Cloudera Manager Impala Performance apache impala metrics performance queries tuning MORE
Know your metrics and the behaviors they drive. Everyone at your company should understand which metrics drive the business, and what behaviors they encourage. He went on to say, “Everyone needs to know how each metric fits into the big picture…why and how we’re measuring something, and how it’s relevant to performance.”. More directly, I would say metrics should capture the changing environment of your business so you can make informed decisions. MORE
Metrics Productivity Indicators KPIWhen attempting to attain an objective or key result, people often refer to key performance , leading and lagging indicators. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t know the difference and how to use them to their benefit. This post should provide some clarity to the differences. What is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Indicators are statistical values to measure current conditions as well as forecast trends and outcomes. MORE
We need to prioritize metrics for learning. Create learning metrics, quantitative and qualitative. Prioritize these metrics alongside financial. One common misconception of agile is that it simply allows you to get everything done faster. This is simply not true. MORE
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Press Releases devops instana KubeCon kubernetes Kubernetes system metrics solutionCompany’s Latest Release Provides Quickest and Easiest Developer Visibility of Kubernetes Application and System Performance Seattle at KubeCon – December 11, 2018 – Instana, the first APM solution provider to monitor kubernetes at the application layer, today announced further enhancements to the company’s automatic application monitoring solution for containerized applications. MORE
But CorvilNet enterprise metrics, monitoring and optimization support the full suite of enterprise applications and data required by modern organizations. By Bob Gourley This post was written on behalf of Corvil to help further the dialog on efficient IT operations. MORE
At the same time, AppDynamics is making good on a promise to integrate metrics drawn from Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the software-defined networking (SDN) that Cisco is embedding in […]. MORE
A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. MORE
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Identify metrics (via GQM ) that will communicate progress of completion. Metrics ProductivityObjectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular leadership process for setting, communicating and monitoring goals and results in organizations on a regular schedule, usually quarterly. The intent of OKRs is to link organization, team and personal objectives in a hierarchical way to measurable results or outcomes, focusing all efforts to make measurable contributions. Why OKRs are important. MORE
Below are the five levels of values and metrics that you can use to evaluate the community of practice in your organisation: Immediate Value – refers to the valuable interactions or activities between the members of the community. The post Communities of Practice Measurement: Focusing on the Right Metrics to Grow Your Company’s Knowledge Capital appeared first on Luís Gonçalves. Making Sense of Your Company’s Knowledge Capital – Communities of Practice Measurement. MORE
More about metrics, logging, monitoring, and reliability. Automated workflows are the new gold standard for delivering top quality products in an agile environment, but with constant change, comes constant risk. MORE
The post xMatters Incorporates Stackdriver APM Metrics from Google appeared first on DevOps.com. MORE
Metrics? Here’s the run-down, followed by some deeper discussion: Metric Analysis. Application Context For Solving Problems – Honeycomb fixes the “ Dimensions of Doom ” problem (also known as high cardinality), which is described in detail in the discussion of metrics below. There is no explosive cost increase or limitation due to contextual information (usually called “tags” or “labels” in metrics products). More than just metrics. MORE
Their capability provides metrics, streaming analytics and analytics around interactions and services. They have proven to be able to process 10s of billions of metrics daily. From their website: Metrics and Events at Scale. Multidimensional Metrics & Flexible Metadata. MORE
We run a ton of A/B tests at Spotify and we look at a ton of metrics. Defining metrics is a little bit of an art form. Ideally you want to define success metrics before you run a test to avoid cherry picking metrics. You also want to define a metric that has as high signal to noise ratio. And of course, most importantly, your metric should ideally correlate to high level business impact as much as possible. Bad metric. MORE
Innovation meant time between failures metrics obsolete operations productivity scenario planning status quo Tags risk uptime Scenario planning is a skill that every CIO must have Image Credit. Risk is a part of every CIO’s standard job description. MORE
You have successfully created an array of reports and figures that can tell you everything about every aspect of every call ever logged for your organization’s service issues. You now have a great deal of information that will take time from what you should be focusing on: the customer. I've noticed that there's a tendency […]. CTO News MORE
By Bob Gourley With the herald of innovative, personal, smart and targeted marketing, ‘big data’ offers enticing and varied advantages for businesses. The ability uncover and harness data, to tackle and tame the informational chaos presented, is increasingly expected of most organisations. MORE
The post Hooked on Service Metrics appeared first on DevOps.com. Blogs DevOps Practice Microservices Journal Operations devops microservices service mesh service metricsWe live in an increasingly “as-a-service” world. MORE
In this article, I’ll talk about some of the most important metrics to consider for monitoring. Picking the Most Important Metrics. Let’s consider a couple of key metrics: Error Handling. So far, we’ve indicated two critical metrics to use for your application. MORE
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While DevOps has come a long way in terms of understanding and adoption, 2019 is going to be marked by a concerted effort to applying metrics to DevOps processes. The post CloudBees: 2019 to Be Year of DevOps Metrics appeared first on DevOps.com.
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The post xMatters Incorporates Stackdriver APM Metrics from Google appeared first on DevOps.com.
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We run a ton of A/B tests at Spotify and we look at a ton of metrics. Defining metrics is a little bit of an art form. Ideally you want to define success metrics before you run a test to avoid cherry picking metrics. You also want to define a metric that has as high signal to noise ratio. And of course, most importantly, your metric should ideally correlate to high level business impact as much as possible. Bad metric.
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Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST The Must Have Metrics Any #DevOps and #SRE Manager Should Look At [link] pic.twitter.com/HvPxIODNUI. This metric clearly represents how successful the team is in accomplishing that goal.
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In this article, I’ll talk about some of the most important metrics to consider for monitoring. Picking the Most Important Metrics. Let’s consider a couple of key metrics: Error Handling. So far, we’ve indicated two critical metrics to use for your application.
Storm Consulting
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They’ve been using just two DevOps metrics , the number of releases made per month and the number of incidents raised per month. Figure 1 Indicative figures showing positive jaws of DevOps metrics: releases vs incidents. DevOps Metrics #1 – Release frequency.
Allen Holub
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"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it—a costly myth." " –W. Edwards Deming The Deming quote at the top of this post is often twisted into something worthy of Frederick Taylor: "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it." " Deming would disagree. You can—in fact, must—manage things… Agility
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Below are the five levels of values and metrics that you can use to evaluate the community of practice in your organisation: Immediate Value – refers to the valuable interactions or activities between the members of the community. The post Communities of Practice Measurement: Focusing on the Right Metrics to Grow Your Company’s Knowledge Capital appeared first on Luís Gonçalves. Making Sense of Your Company’s Knowledge Capital – Communities of Practice Measurement.
Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group
Which metrics you should and shouldn’t be using. Is your agile team overloaded with feature requests, with no time for discovery? Do your roadmaps read like impossible wish lists? Well, you’re not alone.
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Derek Huether
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Know your metrics and the behaviors they drive. Everyone at your company should understand which metrics drive the business, and what behaviors they encourage. He went on to say, “Everyone needs to know how each metric fits into the big picture…why and how we’re measuring something, and how it’s relevant to performance.”. More directly, I would say metrics should capture the changing environment of your business so you can make informed decisions.
Honeycomb
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Metrics? Here’s the run-down, followed by some deeper discussion: Metric Analysis. Application Context For Solving Problems – Honeycomb fixes the “ Dimensions of Doom ” problem (also known as high cardinality), which is described in detail in the discussion of metrics below. There is no explosive cost increase or limitation due to contextual information (usually called “tags” or “labels” in metrics products). More than just metrics.
SoCal CTO
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A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure.
CTOvision
MARCH 2, 2016
That is why Bright added job-based metrics to their Bright Cluster Manager solutions. Users can now select a job that is currently running (or has recently run) and get metrics for both nodes and jobs. CPU usage metrics. Memory usage metrics. Katie Kennedy.
Speaker: Ruben Ugarte, Founder, Practico Analytics
Of course, it’s crucial to have a good onboarding experience to drive your activation metrics. If you're looking to optimize your onboarding to improve your activation metrics, this webinar is for you. Onboarding users is filled with possibilities and challenges.
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JANUARY 24, 2014
But CorvilNet enterprise metrics, monitoring and optimization support the full suite of enterprise applications and data required by modern organizations. By Bob Gourley This post was written on behalf of Corvil to help further the dialog on efficient IT operations.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 3, 2017
You have successfully created an array of reports and figures that can tell you everything about every aspect of every call ever logged for your organization’s service issues. You now have a great deal of information that will take time from what you should be focusing on: the customer. I've noticed that there's a tendency […]. CTO News
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JANUARY 21, 2019
Blogs DevOps Culture DevOps Practice CI/CD pipeline devops implementation DevOps planning metrics StrategyOrganizations today are focused on improving the IT delivery process and taking it to the next level. DevOps plays a key role in achieving this goal, if it’s done right.
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JANUARY 23, 2019
Blogs DevOps in the Cloud cloud deployment cloud migration cloud monitoring infrastructure performance metricsMigrating to the cloud isn’t as simple as signing up for a SaaS application or deploying applications on a cloud infrastructure or platform; there are other factors at play.
Speaker: Gary Galvin, CEO, Galvin Technologies
Likewise, it’s even more important to shape your sales culture into one that is positive, accountable, and metric-driven. Gary Galvin will help you define metrics to drive success, empower your sales team, and create a culture driven by results and accountability.
CTOvision
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By Bob Gourley With the herald of innovative, personal, smart and targeted marketing, ‘big data’ offers enticing and varied advantages for businesses. The ability uncover and harness data, to tackle and tame the informational chaos presented, is increasingly expected of most organisations.
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Blogs DevOps Practice developers devops log management logging metrics programmingThe competition is on for DevOps teams that are expected to rev up production on a multitude of projects, with teams and companies aiming to stay atop the global software product marketplace.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 11, 2010
Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics. Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. I agree completely: If it makes you feel better to give me that number in passing, okay, go ahead, but don’t put any emphasis on it.
Honeycomb
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Logging Metrics ObservabilityWhat should one pay for observability? How much observability is enough? How much is too much, or is there such a thing?
Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic
You'll learn: How to turn basic dashboard metrics into a financial model. Some teams struggle to constantly optimize conversion rates without understanding the financial impact of those conversion rates. Sometimes that 0.1% increase isn't worth the engineering time we're spending!
Agile Alliance
OCTOBER 11, 2018
Time and time again teams struggle with Velocity as a genuinely helpful metric. Escape Velocity considers better alternatives to Velocity as a metric. Process velocity
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DECEMBER 11, 2018
Press Releases devops instana KubeCon kubernetes Kubernetes system metrics solutionCompany’s Latest Release Provides Quickest and Easiest Developer Visibility of Kubernetes Application and System Performance Seattle at KubeCon – December 11, 2018 – Instana, the first APM solution provider to monitor kubernetes at the application layer, today announced further enhancements to the company’s automatic application monitoring solution for containerized applications.
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CDH Cloudera Manager How-to Search alerts Apache Solr charts Cloudera Search cluster health Collection Health custom dashboards diagnostics metrics monitoring resource management solr stats troubleshooting
The Accidental Successful CIO
OCTOBER 3, 2012
Senior executives in your company are looking to a formal, integrated dashboard to enable them to be able to monitor key company metrics. In the past, your senior executives including the CFO may have been content to focus only on the high-level metrics.
Speaker: Jim O'Leary, VP of Product Management, and Brian Elmi, Director of Product Management, NTENT
Most product dashboard review lagging indicators rather than leading indicator and focus on the wrong metrics to move the business forward. How to define success metrics for new initiatives (product, marketing, etc) that align with your business needs.
CTOvision
MARCH 12, 2015
Their capability provides metrics, streaming analytics and analytics around interactions and services. They have proven to be able to process 10s of billions of metrics daily. From their website: Metrics and Events at Scale. Multidimensional Metrics & Flexible Metadata.
CTOvision
OCTOBER 24, 2016
The metrics associated with their use would have to be reliable and repeatable. Big Data News analytics infonomics Metrics valueDennis D. McDonald. Information value. CTOvision.com recently posted an interesting article by John Mancini titled Putting a value on your company information. In it Mancini says, it is imperative that standard models to measure information are introduced as a matter of urgency in this digital age.
Derek Huether
JANUARY 19, 2018
Identify metrics (via GQM ) that will communicate progress of completion. Metrics ProductivityObjectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular leadership process for setting, communicating and monitoring goals and results in organizations on a regular schedule, usually quarterly. The intent of OKRs is to link organization, team and personal objectives in a hierarchical way to measurable results or outcomes, focusing all efforts to make measurable contributions. Why OKRs are important.
Derek Huether
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Metrics Productivity Indicators KPIWhen attempting to attain an objective or key result, people often refer to key performance , leading and lagging indicators. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t know the difference and how to use them to their benefit. This post should provide some clarity to the differences. What is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Indicators are statistical values to measure current conditions as well as forecast trends and outcomes.
The Accidental Successful CIO
APRIL 9, 2014
Innovation meant time between failures metrics obsolete operations productivity scenario planning status quo Tags risk uptime Scenario planning is a skill that every CIO must have Image Credit. Risk is a part of every CIO’s standard job description.
Scrum.org
JANUARY 15, 2019
We need to prioritize metrics for learning. Create learning metrics, quantitative and qualitative. Prioritize these metrics alongside financial. One common misconception of agile is that it simply allows you to get everything done faster. This is simply not true.
DevOps.com
JANUARY 23, 2019
At the same time, AppDynamics is making good on a promise to integrate metrics drawn from Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the software-defined networking (SDN) that Cisco is embedding in […].
OverOps
MAY 16, 2018
More about metrics, logging, monitoring, and reliability. Automated workflows are the new gold standard for delivering top quality products in an agile environment, but with constant change, comes constant risk.
DevOps.com
DECEMBER 12, 2018
When it comes to storing metrics and events, a time series database provides a number of benefits that general purposes databases don’t, including high velocity, range scans over large chunks of data, efficient data eviction and compression.
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