Deployment Frequency
What is Deployment Frequency?
Deployment Frequency represents how often an organization successfully releases software to production.
To monitor Deployment Frequency, you must create a DORA type Workflow profile and add the Deployment Frequency report to your Insights.
To learn more, go to DORA Reports
Deployment Frequency scoring
Deployment Frequency performance is ranked on the following grading scale:
Elite: More than one deployment per day.
High: Deployments occur anywhere from once per day to once per week.
Medium: Deployments occur anywhere from once per week to once per month.
Low: Deployment occur less than once per month.
The Deployment Frequency formula depends on whether you are tracking issue management, SCM, or CI/CD. The following factors can contribute to Deployment Frequency calculations:
The SEI integration chosen in the Workflow profile.
For Issue Management SEI integrations, SEI counts the Number of issues deployed.
For SCM SEI integrations, SEI counts the number of PRs deployed.
For CI/CD SEI integrations, SEI counts the number of jobs deployed
Filters applied to the Workflow profile.
Collection-level filters.
Widget-level filters.
Insight time range, which is the time range selected by the user when viewing the Insight.
Calculation Example using Deployment Platform
Consider the following Deployment Frequency configuration:
SEI integration: Harness NG
Filter: Project Category Equals SEI/Demo
Calculation parameter: Calculate based on the pipelines started in the selected time range on the Insight
Time Range selected on the dashboard: Last 2 weeks
The following table shows the data ingested by the Harness NG SEI integration.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
Integration | Harness NG |
Total Deployments | 960 |
Duration | Last 2 weeks = 14 Days |
Project | SEI/Demo |
With this configuration, the Deployment Frequency widget shows the total number of times pipeline was started in the Project named SEI/Demo in the given time range.
Calculation Example using Issue Management Platform
Consider the following Deployment Frequency configuration:
SEI integration: Jira
Filter: Status Category Equals Done
Calculation parameter: Ticket resolved in Insight time range
Time Range selected on the dashboard: Last 3 months
With this configuration, the Deployment Frequency widget shows the total number of tickets with a status of Done in the given time range.
Assuming there are 24 tickets in Done status in the Last 91 days, then the Deployment Frequency is 0.263 Deployments Per Day and 1.846 Deployments Per Week.
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