Effective Software Development with Metrics
The ultimate goal of measuring software processes is to inform business decisions
Understand the reason behind measuring metrics when selecting them.
Google recommends using the Goals/Signals/Metrics (GSM) framework to guide metric creation. Which specify signals that track progress towards achieving the goal and select metrics that act as proxies for the signals. Only meaningful metrics that inform actionable insights should be captured. It is important to consider who will take action based on the results and when they will do so.
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The ultimate goal of measuring software processes is to inform business decisions.
To simplify the process, it is recommended that all services emit health and monitoring-related metrics. While written documentation is helpful, developers prefer to have code they can run and explore.
Establishing standards or best practices is helpful as it provides examples people can follow. This way, people can learn and install the better parts of your system.
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