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Deployment Frequency Calculation

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 Platforms, 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 Insight: Last 2 weeks

The following table shows the data ingested by the Harness NG SEI integration.

FieldValue
IntegrationHarness NG
Total Deployments960
DurationLast 2 weeks = 14 Days
ProjectSEI/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.

Deployment Frequency = (Total Number of Pipeline Executions) / (Days in the Insight Time Range - 1)
Deployment Frequency = 960 / 14 - 1 = 73.84

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 Insight: Last 3 months

With the above configuration settings, the Deployment Frequency widget shows the total number of tickets with a status of Done in the given time range.

Daily Deployment Frequency = ( Tickets in Done status ) / ( Days in the Insight Time Range )

Daily Deployment Frequency = 24 / 91 = 0.263

Weekly Deployment Frequency = ( Tickets in Done status ) / ( Days in the Insight Time Range / 7 )

Weekly Deployment Frequency = 24 / 13 = 1.846

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.