Metrics Leadership Actually Uses
Executives care about release reliability and business stability—not raw test counts.
Essential Metrics
- Defect Leakage Rate
- Change Failure Rate
- Deployment Frequency
- Mean Time to Detect (MTTD)
- Mean Time to Recover (MTTR)
Dashboard Principles
Use trend-based dashboards that answer one question clearly: is release risk improving or worsening over time?