My First Year at Chef: Measuring All the Things
summary
A new metrics culture starts with an one‑page company scorecard mapping daily work to business goals, uses monthly team‑lead interviews as an MVP to measure test maturity, then builds automated collection and dashboards; a customer‑facing DevOps Journey assessment (dojo v2) becomes a benchmarking and sales tool. Organizational culture is measured with the Westrom typology as a leading indicator, baselines are explicit, and the team favors median over mean for skewed operational data.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:25Why I Came to Chef and What Brought Me to Chef
- 5:05Jeff Scorecard
- 6:59International Infrastructure
- 11:15Identifying a Goal
- 11:54Initial Steps
- 14:59Benchmarking
- 18:02Westrom Organizational Cultural Metric
- 22:35Whip Limits
- 26:26Advanced Topics
- 26:56Normalize Your Data
- 30:23How Do You Apply Westrom to a Larger Team
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