As engineering organisations grow, one of the biggest challenges is understanding what capabilities they actually have and what capabilities they will need in the future. It is easy to say that an organisation has “great engineers”. It is much harder to answer more practical questions: Do we have the right skills for the technology we are adopting? Where are our biggest capability gaps? Are critical skills concentrated in only a few people? What skills should we develop inter

Organizations have become increasingly sophisticated at measuring software delivery. We can measure lead time, cycle time, throughput, deployment frequency, change failure rate, reliability, predictability, and a growing number of other engineering metrics. These measurements tell us a great deal about what an engineering organization is delivering and how effectively software moves through the delivery system. But there is another question that is just as important: Are we a