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Project Velocity

Question: What is the development speed for an organization?

Overview

Project velocity measures the number of issues, the number of pull requests, volume of commits, and number of contributors as an indicator of innovation. It gives an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) manager a way to compare the project velocity across a portfolio of projects. Open Source Program Office (OSPO) manager can use the Project Velocity metric to: report project velocity of open source projects vs in-house projects, compare project velocity across a portfolio of projects, identify promising areas in which to get involved and highlight areas likely to be the successful platforms over the next several years

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Data Collection Strategies

Filters

  • Internal vs external contributors
  • Project sources (e.g., internal repositories, open-source repositories, and competitor open-source repositories)
  • Time

Visualizations

  • X-Axis: Logarithmic scale for Code Changes
  • Y-Axis: Logarithmic scale of Sum of Number of Issues and Number of Reviews
  • Dot-size: Committers
  • Dots are projects CNCF cncf


References

Contributors

  • Elizabeth Barron
  • Georg Link
  • Matt Germonprez
  • Peculiar C Umeh

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