What is Deployment Frequency?
Deployment Frequency answers the question: how often is new value reaching users? Elite teams deploy on demand, sometimes many times a day; low performers deploy less than once a month. Low frequency is usually a symptom of tight coupling, brittle tests, or manual gates that architecture choices can address.
Related terms
- DORA Metrics — Four widely used engineering performance metrics: Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, and Mean Time to Recovery.
- Lead Time for Changes — The time between a code change being committed and that change running in production.