Toolchain Management
Coordinate platform and pipeline management for provisioning, developing, delivering, and monitoring applications.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Toolchain Management at each level of maturity.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Put in place common tools or platforms to be used across teams to support solution delivery.
- Outcome
- The effectiveness and efficiency of solution delivery is improved due to tool consistency.
- Metrics
- % of test activities supported by tool usage.
- % of teams using a standard toolset.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Put in place integrated, end-to-end management of platforms and pipelines across the life cycle, and ensure that the criteria for selecting tools are well-defined and applied.
- Outcome
- Criteria for selecting tools (such as interoperability, range of features, platforms supported, and active user community), are well-defined and can be consistently applied to keep the toolchain manageable.
- Metrics
- # of criteria for selecting tools in place.
- Existence of integrated, end-to-end management of platforms and pipelines across the solution life cycle.
- % of teams using a standard toolset.
- 4Advanced
- Practices
- Ensure that strategic and comprehensive management is in place to manage platforms and pipelines across development and infrastructure teams.
- Facilitate frequent experimentation with new and evolving tools.
- Outcome
- The effectiveness and efficiency of solution delivery is ensured.
- Metrics
- # of annual reviews of platforms and pipelines.
- % of new and evolving tools incorporated.
- Existence of strategic and comprehensive management to manage platforms and pipelines across development and infrastructure teams.
- % of teams using a standard toolset.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Continually review and optimize enterprise-wide, integrated management of platforms and pipelines.
- Outcome
- Delivery teams can introduce and integrate tools that facilitate their delivery needs in a transparent, flexible way.
- Metrics
- # of annual reviews of platforms and pipelines.
- % of new and evolving tools incorporated.
- Existence of strategic and comprehensive management to manage platforms and pipelines across development and infrastructure teams.
- % of teams using a standard toolset.