Software development

DORA Metrics

Acronym : DORA

DORA metrics (from the DevOps Research and Assessment program) measure a software team's performance across four indicators: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore service.

Why it matters

They provide a factual, tool-agnostic basis to objectively compare a team's performance over time or against market benchmarks.

Concrete example

A company discovers through DORA metrics that its time to restore service after an incident is well above its industry median, and makes it its top DevOps priority.

Related notions

DevOps performanceDeployment frequencyTime to restore

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