Create An Efficiency Profile

Overview

Efficiency Profiles are essential for measuring software delivery performance using DORA metrics.

Creating an efficiency profile

To create an efficiency profile:

1. From the left-hand navigation pane, click on Efficiency under Configuration, then select Efficiency Profiles.

2. To create a profile, click Create in the top right corner.

3. Enter a descriptive Efficiency Profile Name (e.g., Efficiency qrv7). You can also add a description.

4. Configure Lead Time for changes by measuring the time it takes a task to go into production.

   Planning

   • Choose Start Event Source (e.g., Issues Management) and Start event status category (e.g., To Do / Proposed).
   • Choose End Event Source (e.g., Issues Management) and End event status category (e.g., In Progress).

   Coding

   • Choose Start Event Source (e.g., Issues Management) and Start Event Type (e.g., In Progress).
   • Choose End Event Source (e.g., Source Code Management) and End Event (e.g., First Commit created).

   Review

   • Choose Start Event Source (e.g., Source Code Management) and Start Event Type (e.g., First Commit created).
   • Choose End Event Source (e.g., Source Code Management) and End Event (e.g., Last PR Merged).

   Build

   • Choose Start Event Source (e.g., Source Code Management) and Start Event Type (e.g., Last PR Merged).
   • Choose End Event Source (e.g., Continuous Integration) and End Event (e.g., Time for first CI execution).

   Deployment

   • Choose Start Event Source (e.g., Continuous Integration) and Start Event Type (e.g., Time for first CI execution).
   • Choose End Event Source (e.g., Continuous Deployment) and End Event (e.g., Time for last CD execution).

5. Configure Deployment Frequency by selecting the type of tool you use for successful deployments (e.g., Continuous Deployment). This measures the number of times a team deploys code to production in a given time period.

6. Configure Change Failure Rate by selecting the failure event type source (e.g., Continuous Deployment). This is the percentage of deployments that cause a failure in production.

7. Configure Mean Time to Restore (MTTR) by selecting the tool you use to track tasks in your team (e.g., Issues Management). This measures how long it takes a team to recover from a failure in production.

8. Click the Save button in the top right corner. A Efficiency profile created successfully message will appear.