Mastering architectural metrics

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Given the variety of architectural styles — and the unique technology landscapes at every organization — how can you develop a set of metrics that can reliably guide your organization to improve? Andrew Harmel-Law has been grappling with this question for some time. We catch up with him to hear how he thinks DORA’s Four Key Metrics provide invaluable guardrails that can empower teams and improve the software delivery process.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone.
0:05.1	Welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcasts.
0:08.6	I'm Ashok Subramanian, one of your regular co-hosts, and I'm joined today by another one of your regular co-host, Dr. Rebecca Parsons.
0:16.6	Hello, everybody. Rebecca Parsons, Chief Technology Officer for ThoughtWorks.
0:20.2	Great. And today, Rebecca and I joined by Andrew Hamill Law. Andrew, do you want to introduce
0:27.4	yourself to our listeners? Yeah, hello. Thanks, Asherk. And hi, Rebecca. Yeah, I'm Andrew
0:32.8	Haramal Law. I'm a tech principal with ThoughtWorks based out of the London office in the UK.
0:38.1	Great.
0:39.7	And Andrew's speciality is architecture metrics.
0:44.2	In fact, he's actually written a chapter on the O'Reilly book on Architecture Metrics.
0:50.5	So that's the topic of our podcast today.
0:53.2	Maybe when we start, why don't we actually start
0:55.9	by trying to, you know, get your definition of architecture metrics? So what is it that you mean?
1:04.4	That's a very good question, actually. So I think so because so architectures themselves,
1:10.5	there's a great variety, right?
1:11.6	And at ThoughtWorks, we see lots of them and I'm sure everybody listening has got the individual manifestation of anyone's architecture is probably not what everyone wants it to be or aspires for it to be, but it's probably what it is.
1:23.6	And it's also probably very different from any other architecture.
1:26.6	Maybe the styles or the aspirations of them could be fitted into various buckets, but there's
1:32.4	a wide variety.
1:34.1	And also in my experience in IT, which has been quite a few years these days, there's always
1:39.8	a fashion or a trend or a new way of doing things.
1:42.3	That means there's older ways of doing things and there's new ways of doing things and there's even newer ways which are coming. And so given that variety, the concept
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