Measuring What Matters with BMC AMI zAdviser DORA Metrics Dashboards

In this presentation, Anthony Anter, a DevOps Architect and Evangelist for BMC Software, discusses the importance of measurement in mainframe transformation and the value of BMC’s zAdviser tool. He emphasizes that organizations often invest heavily in new tools and processes but struggle to quantify the value of these investments. Anter highlights the reluctance of many organizations to measure their performance due to fear of revealing inefficiencies. He introduces the DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics as critical indicators for assessing DevOps performance, focusing on deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recovery, and change failure rate. These metrics provide a comprehensive view of an organization’s efficiency and quality in software delivery. Anter explains how BMC’s zAdviser leverages data from BMC tools and some third-party tools, using machine learning to analyze and generate actionable insights. The tool helps organizations understand their performance, identify trends, and make informed decisions to improve their DevOps processes. The presentation also touches on the integration of zAdviser with existing systems and the potential for custom reports to benchmark performance against industry standards.