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Is It Worth It? Four Metrics to Determine Platf...

Is It Worth It? Four Metrics to Determine Platform Efficiency

A successful platform is normally measured by adoption and usage — important metrics to track to ensure you’re serving your internal customers. From a business perspective, though, you also need to show that your platform delivers a worthy return on the investment your organization makes to build, run, maintain and evolve it. Join CircleCI's VP, Platform, Mike Stahnke in this talk as he walks attendees through four key metrics to determine platform ROI and ways to put them into practice.

(As presented at CTOCraftCon)

Michael Stahnke

March 23, 2021
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  1. 1 Is it worth it? 4 Metrics to Determine Platform

    Efficiency Michael Stahnke VP Platform Engineering @stahnma
  2. 2 It’s not a silo, it’s a barn. Concentrating your

    efficiencies into a platform organization. Michael Stahnke VP Platform Engineering @stahnma
  3. 54 Pillars of Platform Availability Cost for Downtime COGS Cost

    for Services in support of Gross Margin Security Attach Rate and dollar value for compliance docs and security questionnaires Developer Productivity Hiring Tradeoffs, time to value Developer Sentiment Developer Adoption @stahnma
  4. 55 Pillars of Platform Availability Cost for Downtime COGS Cost

    for Services in support of Gross Margin Security Attach Rate and dollar value for compliance docs and security questionnaires Developer Productivity Hiring Tradeoffs, time to value Developer Sentiment Developer Adoption @stahnma
  5. 56 Twitter’s Engineering Effectiveness Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom - http://www.gigamonkeys.com/

    flowers/ The SPACE of developer Productivity. Research paper from Nicole Forsgren, GitHub Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria Chandra Maddila, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, and Jenna Butler, Microsoft Research https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3454124 GitLab MR Rate https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/merge- request-rate/ Further Reading Materials on Developer Productivity @stahnma