9 posts tagged with “DORA Metrics”
DORA metrics benchmarks by tier: the Elite/High/Medium/Low thresholds per metric, why DORA retired the four tiers in 2025, and how to use them without gaming.
A buyer's guide to DORA metrics tools: choose on the data source they read, how they define each metric, and how the price scales, not the dashboard.
Measuring DORA metrics across multiple CI/CD providers is the norm. Why per-provider numbers fragment, the three things to normalise, and what you can compare.
Deployment rework rate is the fifth DORA metric, added in 2024. It catches what change failure rate misses: how much reactive deploy work failures create.
Mean time to recovery (MTTR) is only honest if the clock starts at customer impact and stops at genuine fix. The two clock traps, and how to recover faster.
Change failure rate is the one DORA metric you can't improve by shipping faster. What it counts, the one way it gets gamed, and how to bring it down.
Deployment frequency is the most intuitive DORA metric and the easiest to inflate. What counts as a deployment, and how to raise it without gaming the count.
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 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.