Deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, time to restore. Why elite performers are strong on all four at once, and what that means for how you pitch a platform.
Every engineering org measures something. Most measure the wrong thing — story points,
velocity, lines of code — because those numbers are easy to collect and mean almost
nothing to the person signing off on a platform investment. DORA's four keys are the
closest the industry has to a standard instrument panel, and they're worth
understanding properly because they're the vocabulary an executive already trusts,
Your DORA metrics are elite. Your velocity is up. Releases still slip. You're measuring the...
Delivery teams have five metrics that predict outcomes. Security teams have finding counts and compliance percentages. The same…
Originally published at devopsdiary.blog. Post F2 in the "Governing AI in the Enterprise"...
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Lines, commits, velocity, DORA, even churn — every metric that measures activity ends up gamed, because activity is cheap to…
