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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you're being asked to do more with less on your software engineering team, you need to be able to see at a glance how your team is doing. Are you deploying at a consistent rate? What's your lead time for changes? Where are your bottlenecks? Our CTO, Don Brown, shows how we take a pulse of our performance at Sleuth using DORA metrics.

Software engineering managers: if you make a change to a team process, how do you measure its impact? Did it work, or didn't it? DORA metrics can give you the data to verify your experiment. Here's an example of how we use DORA metrics to improve at Sleuth.

New in Sleuth for March 2023: See how issue breakdowns give you more visibility and show you the status of any issue referenced in your deployments. They're especially useful when looking at your work in progress so you can see what's in review, what's in progress, and what's being investigated. Plus, environment drift details provide visibility into the specific deploys, PRs, commits and issues that comprise the drift between any two environments. Less drift means fewer production issues.