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Deployment Frequency
The rate at which an organization successfully deploys changes to production or an equivalent user-facing environment.
What it measures
Deployment Frequency counts successful production deployments over a defined period. It is a delivery-throughput signal, not a direct measure of customer value or developer productivity.
Use a stable definition of deployment, exclude retries or no-op events, and interpret frequency alongside change size, lead time, failure rate, and product outcomes. Batch-oriented, regulated, embedded, and continuously delivered systems may have legitimately different patterns.