Change rate and change failure rate

Finally, you can measure the number of changes delivered to production and the percentage of that which is not successful. Increasing the rate of change implies that you are more often delivering value to your users, hence realizing a flow of value. Also, by measuring not just the number of failures, but the percentage that fails, you are actually encouraging many small, successful changes instead of encouraging limiting the number of changes overall.

Your goals should be to increase the rate of change while lowering the change failure rate.

At this point, you might be wondering, how do I change my organization to foster this culture and reap all of these benefits? The next section will answer this for you.