DORA Metrics
With AI speeding up delivery, use DORA metrics to check quality is keeping up.
Essentialschecklist
- Deployment frequency and lead time measure speed; change failure rate and time to restore measure quality
- Watch change failure rate: if it climbs as you deploy more often, speed is outpacing quality
- Use metrics to improve the system, never to blame people
- Review the metrics together as a team to see how you're doing
Techniques
1
Deployment frequency
How often you release to production.
2
Lead time for changes
Time from commit to running in production.
3
Change failure rate
Share of releases that cause a failure in production.
4
Time to restore
How quickly you recover when something breaks.