Avg. from merge to deploy

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Interpretation

Larger companies

• High: Less than 10 hours - indicate near real-time CD: auto-promote on green, small batches, canary/blue-green, infra-as-code, and quick rollbacks. Watchouts: insufficient soak time or reviews, off-hours deploys without coverage. Mitigate with progressive delivery, strong observability, runbooks, and staffed deploy windows.

• Medium: Between 10 and 24 hours - a healthy enterprise norm that balances safety and speed: accommodates change windows, compliance checks, regional rollouts, and coordination with SRE/ops. Maintain with policy-as-code (auto-approve low-risk changes), prod-parity staging, draft release notes, and pre-scheduled cutovers.

• Low: More than 24 hours - suggests bottlenecks: manual CAB gates, release trains, long/flaky end-to-end suites, artifact promotion delays, environment contention, cross-team dependencies, or freeze periods. Improve by slimming gates via risk-based approvals, parallelizing/caching tests, pre-building artifacts, adding ephemeral envs, region-by-region rollout, feature flags to decouple deploy from release, and setting SLOs for deployment latency.

Smaller companies

• High: Less than 1 hour - indicate a very fast deployment process, often driven by strong CI/CD automation, well-tested code, and solid DevOps practices. These processes should be maintained and continuously refined.
• Medium: Between 1 and 4 hours - reflect a reasonable deployment speed, typical for teams with some automation and a balanced focus on speed and safety. There may be manual steps, so further automation opportunities should be explored.
• Low: More than 4 hours - suggest a slow deployment process, potentially caused by manual steps, infrastructure issues, or testing bottlenecks. These inefficiencies should be investigated and the deployment pipeline optimized.

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