Engineering metrics often span:
**Quality:** metrics like bug rate, test coverage, and escaped defects
**Efficiency:** metrics like velocity, lead time and cycle time
**Operational Efficiency:** deployment-related metrics like deployment frequency or commit-to-deploy time
**Collaboration and Team Dynamics:**insights from code review turnaround time or the number of comments per pull request
**Reliability:** measures such as Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) or Change Failure Rate
**Technical Health:** metrics related to technical debt and code maintainability
**Performance:** metrics such as response times, server downtimes, and latency figures
**Developer Experience:** metrics like DevEx and developer satisfaction surveys
Engineering metrics aim to provide clarity, drive improvement and ensure alignment