Lead Time for Changes: From First Commit to Production
Lead time for changes is simple until two managers disagree. The clock-start choice, the deployment rule, and what to do when the number is too high.
7 posts tagged with “DORA Metrics”
Lead time for changes is simple until two managers disagree. The clock-start choice, the deployment rule, and what to do when the number is too high.
A CI/CD pipeline audit is a practitioner's health check, not a maturity model. The framework, what to look for, and the prioritised punch list teams act on.
Don't monitor everything that can be counted. Monitor the signals that show whether your CI, deploy, recovery, and economic feedback loops are closing.
CI/CD is not a pipeline. It is the discipline of short feedback loops from commit to customer: small batches, fast tests, real deployments that ship.
A practical guide to measuring the five DORA metrics in real CI/CD pipelines, including deployment rework rate (added in 2024). Covers the decisions to settle first, the data sources to use, and the traps to avoid for each metric.
The native GitHub Actions view tells you which runs passed, but not whether your CI is healthy. Here's what a proper GitHub Actions dashboard should track — and the practical options for building or buying one.
CI/CD Watch is a single dashboard for monitoring pipeline runs, tracking DORA metrics, controlling costs, and catching flaky tests across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins.