Deployment Frequency
Number of production deployments in a period (DORA metric)
What is Deployment Frequency?
Deployment frequency is the number of successful production deployments in a period. It shows how often a team delivers changes to users.
Frequent, small releases usually mean faster feedback and lower risk, so it is a key measure of software delivery performance.
How this KPI is measured
- Function
- Information Technology
- Sub-function
- Software Delivery
- Industry
- All Industries
- Type
- Leading
- Impact
- Efficiency
- Unit
- #
- Measurement frequency
- Weekly / Monthly
- Formula
- Count of successful production deployments in period
How to calculate it
Count the successful production deployments in the period.
For example, if a team made 90 successful deployments in a month, the frequency is 90.
Some teams express it per day or per week. Read it with change failure rate, since frequency only helps if changes are reliable.
Where it is used
Measuring delivery speed
See how often changes ship.
Tracking improvement
Watch the effect of process changes.
Comparing teams
Share practices.
How to improve it
Tips and common mistakes
- Frequency without quality is not progress.
- Do not compare teams with very different products.
- Use with change failure rate.
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