Measuring your effectiveness as a manager is extremely

difficult, and it’s easy to find false positive and negative

affirmations. While you must remain flexible to feedback, you
must also remain committed in approach. Judge your success as a manager
on your ability to make progress on your goals every day.  Get to the root of what you
are trying to drive and make that the focus. If you want to drive
continuous deployment in your organization, internalize the
benefits of developer efficiency and ability to ship product
quickly. Even if you never get to continuous deployment, the
changes in the organization you can cause by staying committed
to those ideals will be the fruits of your labor.