Let Slack tell you when code ships
Check out these simple steps to set up Slack notifications for when code ships. Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.
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DORA Metrics Best Trackers Comparison Guide [Feb 2023]
If you're a DevOps team looking for ways to improve your performance, you've probably heard of the Accelerate and DORA metrics. Tracking your performance with these metrics is a challenge, requiring good tooling. You might be tempted to build your own tracking solution, but you don’t need to! Due to the growing popularity of DORA metrics, several tracker tools are available on the market. But how do you choose the best DORA metrics tracker for you? This handy comparison guide will help!
How to protect your production branch in a fire!
What do you do when your service is on fire and you need to stop any changes before they reach the production branch? Use a GitHub personal token. Here's a quick and easy how-to. Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.
Do DORA metrics spy on you?
How can you, in simple terms, explain to a team why they should adopt DORA metrics? Torsten, Software Engineering Manager from Article, answers this question that gets to the heart of why use DORA metrics at all. Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.
Get in Front of Delivery Risks by Managing Work in Progress: Turn Your DORA Metrics into Trip Wires
In this live stream on Thursday, January 19 at 1pm PT, learn how Sleuth's new Work in Progress Metrics feature helps you: Sleuth gives software development and engineering teams the most complete and accurate visibility into DORA metrics across your organization and projects. Work-in-progress metrics can also be helpful for communicating execution status to stakeholders, and for tracking if improvement initiatives being implemented are making a difference.
Puma + Sleuth = The Swiss Army Knife of Deployment Pipeline Orchestration
Michael Gaskin from Puma and Dylan Etkin from Sleuth discuss how Michael's team uses Sleuth to orchestrate its entire deployment pipeline and show engineering value, specifically for a major engineering initiative -- moving from a monolithic packaged software system to a new headless front end commerce solution.
Get in front of delivery risks by managing work in progress
Sleuth’s product team is pleased to announce an exciting new feature that provides early and actionable visibility into emerging work-in-progress risk! With this release, Sleuth provides customers even more actionable visibility into their engineering efficiency. It extends Sleuth's deploy-centric tracking capabilities upstream in the developer workflow to provide real-time visibility into in-flight work and its emerging risks. Here's how it works.
The Start of Sleuth: Filling a Gap in Software Delivery Performance
Sleuth's founders -- Dylan Etkin, Michael Knighten, and Don Brown -- talk about where the idea for Sleuth came from, how it's filling a need in measuring and improving on software delivery performance, and how it helps teams unlock their ability to experiment. Give Sleuth a try and see why it's a deploy-based Accelerate / DORA metrics tracker both managers and developers love.
Announcing issue-initiated Change Lead Time
Sleuth is pleased to announce a new option to start your Change Lead Time clock based on state transitions in your issue tracker! In our ongoing effort to meet customers where they are, we heard from many of you that you’d like Sleuth to account for and provide visibility into your pre-commit coding time. We’re pleased to offer this this new option to tell Sleuth which specific state transitions in your issue tracker should start your Change Lead Time clock!
Does accuracy matter for tracking DORA metrics?
You might be excited about tracking DORA metrics, but have you ever thought about the ways in which you track them, and how important accuracy is in your methods?