Welcome
Data Insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
Insights dashboards management
Use the Insights dashboard feature to analyze project quality and efficiency.
Metric chart reference
Metric charts can be attached to dashboards, value streams, and applications in the Portfolio view.
Flow Efficiency metric

Release Notes
This document includes information about the new features introduced, defects fixed, and known issues identified in this version of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). You can also find the installation and upgrade instructions along with the contact information of HCL Customer Support.
System Requirements
This document contains information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
Getting Started
This document provides an overview of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
High-Level Overview
Use HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) to automate your release lifecycle and manage your DevOps value streams.
Tutorials
Learn how to complete frequently-used tasks such as creating value streams.
Managing licenses
Configure your license or apply a trial key.
Administering
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). After you install Velocity, you can perform administrative tasks such as license configuration, upgrading, migrating, managing access permissions and security. This guide is intended for system administrators.
Managing Value Streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
Data Insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
- Insights dashboards management
  Use the Insights dashboard feature to analyze project quality and efficiency.
  - Creating dashboards and favorites
    Create dashboards and favorites to manage metric data charts and graphs.
  - Analyzing data
    Managing Insights dashboards.
  - Metric chart reference
    Metric charts can be attached to dashboards, value streams, and applications in the Portfolio view.
    - Lead time, cycle time and dev-cycle time table metrics
      Lead time, cycle time and dev-cycle time table metrics provide refined granularity for issues.
    - Agile Churn metric
    - Change Failure Rate metric
    - Flow Efficiency metric
      - Adding Flow Efficiency metric to the dashboard
        You can add the Flow Efficiency metric to the Velocity Measure dashboard.
      - Adding Flow Efficiency metric in the value stream
        You can add the Flow Efficienty metric in the value stream.
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- Insights reports
  Insights reports are generated for the data that is aggregated in the Value streams, Pipelines, and Release categories. You can generate reports by clicking a button and then shared with the required stakeholders. You can run the following insights reports in HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) Measure.
Analytics Dashboards
Analytics creates team-specific dashboards that generate charts for each activity of the product development. HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) creates dashboards automatically while you create a team.
Releasing Software
A release is a repeatable plan that is used to drive deployments.
Extending Product Functions
Learn how to extend the function of VelocityVelocity Measure
How to
The topics in this section describe how to work with Velocity Measure features. Tutorials and workbooks are available for users of all experience levels.
Troubleshooting
Before you contacting support, gather background information and perform tasks that will assist in solving the problem. It helps to be as specific as possible and include all relevant information.
Notices for DevOps Velocity
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.
DevOps Velocity GDPR statement
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been adopted by the European Union (EU) and applies from May 25, 2018.
Glossary

Flow Efficiency metric

The Flow Efficiency metric is the ratio of actual development time to cycle time. It is expressed as a percentage, which helps teams to understand their performance. A higher flow efficiency indicates a smoother process with fewer delays, while lower values indicate inefficiencies that might require attention to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the workflow.

The Flow Efficiency metric is a key metric used to assess the reliability and success of the changes deployed within a system. This metric provides insight into the efficiency of work in the development pipeline. By using the Flow Efficiency metric, teams can create a more predictable and effective delivery process. Therefore, you can get better-quality results and increased delivery efficiency.

HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) Measure calculates the Flow Efficiency metric by using the following formula:

Where:

Story points: The total value of the story points of the issues.

Cycle time: The total time taken for each issue to progress from start to completion.

Here is an example of the calculation:

A work item had 6 story points, and the cycle time was 18.5.

Therefore, the Flow Efficiency metric is calculated as follows:

Display of the Flow Efficiency metric in Velocity Measure

In Velocity Measure, the Flow Efficiency metric is displayed on the Dashboards and Value Streams pages:

Dashboards page: The Flow Efficiency metric is displayed in the Dashboards by using a graph, which dynamically shows flow efficiency data in percentage over time. You can group by days, month, week, quarter, year, or with custom dates.
Value Streams page: The Value Streams page shows the Flow Efficiency metric in a specific value stream. It shows the ratio of actual development time over the cycle time in percentage by taking the number of overall work items in the value stream in the last 30 days.
The result is presented on the Value Streams page, which enables stakeholders to view the overall stability and reliability of the deployment process for that specific value stream.