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Improve engineering teams faster with DORA metrics
We talk with numerous teams that want to improve their engineering performance. Here, we explain how to accelerate your progress using DORA metrics — a set of key performance indicators that can help you measure and optimize your team's software development process. You'll learn practical tips on how to leverage these metrics to achieve faster and more efficient team improvement. But first, you'll need your team to see the value in DORA metrics.
Any decent DORA metrics tool should do this
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?
This is the key to doing more with less
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.
Unhealthy code? Don't rely on customers to tell you
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.
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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.
Lean in to this to help your developers
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 these to ensure high quality code
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.
Developers like DORA metrics too
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.
Pulse-check your engineering team performance
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.