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DORA Metrics: What are they, and what's new in 2023?

Dec 28, 2023 By Lauren Craigie In Cortex
There is nothing more valuable to an organization than data—about customers, products, opportunities, gaps... the list goes on. We know that to maximize value streams for the business we need to turn a critical eye to data related to how each group operates, including software development teams. In 2019 a group known as the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team set out to find a universally applicable framework for doing just that.
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Break up with Backstage (without losing what you built): Cortex's Backstage migration helper

Dec 21, 2023 By Kate Huff In Cortex
Backstage by Spotify is an open-source platform for building IDPs (internal developer portals). IDPs provide standardization and visibility for engineering teams and managers, as the single source of truth for status, ownership, and metrics on software projects. Teams often try Backstage when they have aspirations of “building anything and everything,” but run into problems when supporting “anything and everything” becomes a full-time job for multiple front and back-end engineers.
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Engineering Intelligence Platforms | Definition, Benefits, Tools

Dec 13, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
In modern engineering teams, lack of comprehensive data visibility can be a major problem. Without full insights into workflows, projects, and processes, issues can arise that create bottlenecks, increase costs, and hamper team productivity. Organizations have long measured company and business metrics, but now leaders want to understand how the engineering teams work from a data- and metrics-oriented approach.
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Webinar: Engineering Productivity: Beyond the Metrics

Dec 5, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
In 2023 most engineering organizations have some way of measuring productivity. Metrics like story points and cycle time help us assess team-wide impact, while code coverage and commits tell us more about individual contributions. While we know these numbers don’t tell the whole story, we rarely hear about how to find the missing pieces. Or what to do next when we learn the culprit is poor testing practices versus bad design. What’s the plan for improvement? Where does it live, and who owns it?
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How IDPs support Fintech compliance initiatives

Dec 4, 2023 By Cortex In Cortex
From the Regulatory Lead to the Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and development team, there are quite a few individuals involved in keeping a Financial Technology (FinTech) company compliant. And there are quite a few regulations to stay in line with: anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS), the list goes on.
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Introducing Cortex Eng Intelligence

Nov 28, 2023 By Lauren Craigie In Cortex
Engineering teams rely on certain metrics to assess their ability to deliver quality products, on time. This is a useful exercise, but execution has been lacking—with metric collation often handled via spreadsheet, or stand-alone tool. Neither approach is ideal for two reasons: 1) How—or more specifically where—metrics are collected silos them away from business context.
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The only way to measure developer productivity without causing a revolt

Nov 21, 2023 By Anish Dhar In Cortex
In an article titled The Worst Programmer I Know, Dan North, the creator of behavior-driven development, writes about a nearly fired developer he saved from the unemployment line. This developer consistently delivered zero story points, even though delivered story points was the primary metric for developer productivity at their (unnamed) software consultancy.
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