Continuous Delivery Pipeline & Deployment Flow

Cascade Systems · Backend & Platform Engineering · Last 30 days

North-Star Metric
18.2 hrs
Deployment-to-Value Time (P85)
P85 Commit-to-Deploy
24.5 hrs
8.2% improvement
Deployment Frequency
3.8 /day
12.5% vs last month
Change Failure Rate
4.8%
Target: <5%
MTTR (P50)
22 min
18% faster
Release Batch Size
13 SP
Smaller batches
Rollback Rate
2.1%
Reduced 40%

Deployment Timeline Calendar Heatmap

Deployment count by hour of day × day of week (last 30 days)
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
00-06
06-09
09-12
12-15
15-18
18-24
Scale:
0-2
3-5
6-9
10-12
13+

Pipeline Stage Funnel

Success rate by stage (last 30 days)

Lead Time Breakdown by Stage

Median duration (hours) per pipeline stage

Pipeline Failure Rate by Ticket Category

% of builds failing at each stage, grouped by ticket type

DORA Quadrant Scatterplot

Deployment Frequency vs Change Failure Rate (per team, last 30 days)

WIP-to-Deployment-Failure Correlation

Weekly active WIP count vs deployment failures (Pearson r = 0.68)

Release Batch Size and Rollback Rate Trend

Weekly median story points per deployment + rollback rate (last 12 weeks)

Environment Drift Index

Configuration & dependency version differences (staging vs prod)
Config Variables 3 drifts
NPM Packages 7 drifts
Infrastructure Version 1 drift
Database Schema 0 drifts
Alert: 7 NPM package version mismatches detected. Review before next production deploy.

Feature Flag Coverage Rate

% of deployed features behind a feature flag (last 8 weeks)

Recent Deployment Events

Last 10 deployments with status, lead time, and rollback information
Deploy ID Date/Time Environment Lead Time Batch Size Status Rollback
#2847 2024-01-15 14:22 Production 18.2 hrs 8 SP Success —
#2846 2024-01-15 09:14 Staging 12.5 hrs 8 SP Success —
#2845 2024-01-14 16:33 Production 22.1 hrs 13 SP Success —
#2844 2024-01-14 11:08 Production 31.4 hrs 21 SP Failed Rolled back
#2843 2024-01-13 15:47 Staging 14.8 hrs 13 SP Success —
#2842 2024-01-13 10:22 Production 19.7 hrs 10 SP Success —
#2841 2024-01-12 14:55 Production 25.3 hrs 16 SP Success —
#2840 2024-01-11 16:12 Staging 11.2 hrs 5 SP Success —
#2839 2024-01-11 09:40 Production 28.6 hrs 18 SP Success —
#2838 2024-01-10 13:25 Production 20.4 hrs 12 SP Success —