DORA metrics are becoming the industry standard for measuring engineering efficiency, but where did they come from? In this inaugural episode of Sleuth TV Live, we talked about:

0:00 Welcome to Sleuth TV Live, Episode 1!

10:05 Today's topic: DORA metrics 101

11:44 How do the best software teams work?

14:05 When and how DORA metrics began

18:15 The four metrics & how they correlate to engineering performance

22:50 Story from the trenches - Atlassian's Confluence product

24:40 The problem of how to measure engineering

25:25 What makes DORA unique

28:26 Digging into the State of DevOps Reports

29:25 More resources - Accelerate book and Sleuth.io

31:28 Boosting adoption of DORA on your team

36:30 Continuous delivery

40:17 Boosting morale for beginner developers

42:29 The DORA metrics & how to measure them

42:39 Deployment frequency

48:56 Change lead time

52:42 Change failure rate

55:56 Mean time to recovery

59:44 Final thoughts

Resources mentioned in the show:

• The Ultimate Guide to Going from Zero to 100 Deploys a Day: https://www.sleuth.io/one-hundred-deploys-a-day
• 2021 State of DevOps Report: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/announcing-dora-2021-accelerate-state-of-devops-report
• 2014 State of DevOps Report: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/state-of-devops-2014.pdf
• DORA's Journey: https://medium.com/@jezhumble/doras-journey-an-exploration-4c6bfc41e667
• Four Keys Project: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/fourkeys
• Accelerate book
• DevOps: https://cloud.google.com/devops
• Are Software Managers Evil or Developers Dumb? https://www.youtube.com/watch