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Industry standard for measuring releases

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Divya Gowda Malaysia
Is there any industry benchmark to determine if there is improvement in the no. of releases by a squad in the agile ways of working? How do we measure it?
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Hey Divya! In an agile approach, each iteration is a fixed lengfh of time: one week, two weeks, . . .Therefore, the number of iterations by a project team will not measure improvement.

What you want to measure is what gets done within each iteration. You can use story points or some other way to measure the work to be delivered. Then, you only need to measure the amount of work delivered in each iteration. You can also measure the amount of work delivered over a period of time: week, month, quarter, . . .
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Jan 08, 2022 1:43 AM
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well explained, thanks.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Divya -

Focusing on number of releases is insufficient as that could mask quality issues (i.e. not meeting customer needs, defects) or low team morale.

The gold standard is companies such as Amazon with automated deployments happening almost continuously, but that cadence fits their business model and is the result of significant efforts to improve the system in which the teams operate.

Kiron
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Vishakha Rai Founder| Omsruti India
Jan 07, 2022 2:02 PM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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Hey Divya! In an agile approach, each iteration is a fixed lengfh of time: one week, two weeks, . . .Therefore, the number of iterations by a project team will not measure improvement.

What you want to measure is what gets done within each iteration. You can use story points or some other way to measure the work to be delivered. Then, you only need to measure the amount of work delivered in each iteration. You can also measure the amount of work delivered over a period of time: week, month, quarter, . . .
well explained, thanks.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Trying to add something to comments above let me say that first thing is to define what release means for your company. In fact, if you use a method/framework you will find quit differences in the definition of the term release. With that said, is a matter to classify the releases and creating an strategy which is related to company strategy (for example, it will depends on the company phase in the life cycle and the type of product you are delivering)
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
I agree with Kiron.

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