Data from DORA metrics isn't enough to help software engineering teams. Any decent DORA metrics tracker should go beyond just giving you data. It should also help you improve on that data by suggesting what to improve. Does your tool do this?

How can you get your software engineering team to do more with less? Empower your developers to make changes. Reviewing work that's in progress, before it's deployed, is one of the best ways to do this. You'll identify risks before they negatively impact your metrics.

Does your software deployment process require that someone on your team manually checks different dashboards to verify that everything's okay? Do they actually do that when they deploy? Do you rely on customer complaints to notify you when something's wrong? There's a better way: Sleuth CTO and co-founder Don Brown shows you how to track several health measures automatically in Sleuth.

DORA metrics encourage software engineering teams to deploy in small batches. The DORA group found that when you deploy in small batches, you tend to have smaller change lead times, less failure rate, and shorter meantime to recovery.

Software development teams need ways to improve all the time. Empowering developers to improve on their own with DORA metrics data can go a long way toward doing more with less.

Code coverage, arguably a very important measure that we as development teams don’t pay enough attention to. That is until Sentry notifies you of a frustrating/critical/oh s*#t moment. Then we all think: “how could this have been avoided?”, “why didn’t our tests catch it?”, “oh… we didn’t have any coverage on this flow.” With our new Codecov integration, you can avoid regressions (and awkward conversations) by being able to see which lines that caused an issue are covered and which ones are not - right in the stack trace we kick out on every error report.

Automate your continuous deployment workflows and you'll not only save time, but you'll ensure your code is high quality when it hits production. It's one of Don Brown's (Sleuth CTO) favorite ways to use Sleuth to do more with less. In this video, he shows you a detailed behind-the-scenes view of how to do this in practice.

DORA metrics aren't just for software engineering managers. Individual contributors can like them, too. At Sleuth, our software engineers are team oriented and want to know what their bottlenecks are. Looking at the change lead time DORA metric gives useful insight.

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