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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. Here they are.

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3 key metrics for cybersecurity product managers

TechCrunch

Context matters a lot, and the realities of different organizations, geographies, cultures and market segments heavily influence what can be measured and what actions can be taken based on these observations. Conversion rate Conversion rate is one of the most important metrics companies, and subsequently — product teams, obsess about.

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The Shift Beyond the Hype: Transitioning from Vanity Metrics to Authentic Business Objectives

Xebia

Introduction Among the sea of metrics, vanity numbers have often taken the spotlight, leaving many organizations lost in a world of misleading indicators and superficial gains. The catch is that many of these metrics (Website views, Leads in Sales Funnel, Marketing spent, Revenue without profit etc.)

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Use DORA metrics to support the next generation of remote-work models

TechCrunch

For tech teams, that disconnect could lead to making quick fixes that ultimately cost the organization more money and individuals more time and stress. Start with DORA metrics. DORA metrics measure software delivery velocity and throughput by plugging into Git (commits and pull requests) and deployment data.

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How to Apply Software Delivery Metrics to Make Technology Investment Count?

The increased cost of capital and riskier economic environment in 2023 are changing the way organizations think about technology investment. As belts are tightened, CTOs are under pressure to do more with less and provide clear evidence that their software delivery teams deliver value as efficiently and predictably as possible.

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Metrics that matter: 3 KPIs to track on the path to profitability

TechCrunch

It makes sense to, because building and scaling an organization requires meaningful investment, often before a company can generate enough revenue to pay the bills. We view cash burn efficiency as an effective shorthand metric to keep an eye on. The key is to ensure that burn is prudent and efficient. A ratio greater than 1.5x

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Observability and the DORA metrics

Honeycomb

The Accelerate State of Devops Report highlights four key metrics (known as the DORA metrics, for DevOps Research & Assessment) that distinguish high-performing software organizations: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time-to-restore[1], and change fail rate. The DORA metrics reinforce each other!

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Skyscanner's Journey to a "Continuous Improvement" Team Culture

Speaker: Ramsay Ashby

Team metrics are in vogue, and there is no shortage of literature espousing the value of various combinations of metrics that will lead your team(s) to delivery stardom. They shared what originally took them down this path, including the signs that change was needed and the impact it has had.

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

While incorrectly built features are a common issue, organizations are becoming preoccupied with the number of features released rather than the impact those features provide. She will also discuss: The overlap between HEART and Pirate AAARRR metrics. Product teams are all too often prone to focusing on the wrong thing.

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The Ultimate Guide to Software Delivery & Engineering Metrics

As DevOps Value Stream Management (VSM) goes mainstream, large and small organizations increasingly recognize the need to apply data analytics to manage the end-to-end software delivery process more effectively – to deliver quality software faster and more predictably.

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Achieving Elite and High Performance DevOps Using DORA Metrics

Speaker: Nico Krüger, Senior Director of Solutions Engineering at Rollbar

How is your organization’s DevOps doing? DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has identified four key metrics to help organizations understand where their DevOps stands and how it can reach an elite level of performance. Do you have strategies to both identify problems and improve performance?

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Monitoring AWS Container Environments at Scale

Particularly well-suited for microservice-oriented architectures and agile workflows, containers help organizations improve developer efficiency, feature velocity, and optimization of resources. Key metrics to monitor when leveraging two container orchestration systems.

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Shaping the Future: Product Strategy in the Age of Uncertainty

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Product Strategy Practice Lead, Kuroshio Consulting

A value-driven product organization optimizes team structures, funding cycles, processes, and metrics to drive traction and growth across the entire product adoption curve by identifying opportunities to solve valuable customer problems and closing those market gaps for either over-served or under-served markets. A System of Metrics.

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Build Actionable Dashboards to Drive Your Business

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 democratize data so that all teams in an organization can benefit from it. How to define success metrics for new initiatives (product, marketing, etc) that align with your business needs.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Keys to automation at different stages of organization maturity. How Amazon thinks about metrics. Maintaining a culture of DevOps no matter what the size of your organization is. In this fast paced talk, he will cover: How to decompose for agility. The "two pizza" team culture. This is a session you won’t want to miss!