FY21-Q1 CI/CD Section OKR: Improve monthly MR Rate => 68%

Group	Benchmark	February	March	April
Continuous Integration	42	54	67	70
Runner	44	65	69	67
Testing	6	13	23	34
Package	42	66	77	65
Progressive Delivery	15	23	30	31
Release Management	31	24	46	22
Overall	216	256	334	303
Total Engineers	35	40	41	44
Avg MRs / Eng	6.17	6.4	8.14	6.89

Objective: Continue to improve team productivity

Key Results:

• Overall section MR Rate increases to 10 by the end of April. (303 / 44 = 68.86%) => 68%

Notes:

• Q4 benchmark is calculated as average throughput from #5605 (closed).

Results

• MR Rate increased by 0.72

Retrospective

GOOD

• March saw a good increase in MR rate, while April was a bit slower due to holidays

BAD

• Maintainer review continues to be a bottleneck

TRY

• Focus on adding maintainers
• Focus on iteration, and improved issue grooming/scoping