State of the DORA DevOps Metrics in 2022

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2022-01-23 15:00:08

Accelerate: The Science of DevOps - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (2018) had a huge impact in the technology industry. The book describes models of DevOps capabilities and culture, and how organisations can drive improvement in software delivery and reliability. What most people remember from the book, and the largest impact it’s had on the industry, are what are colloquially referred to as the DORA metrics. Four key indicators which strongly correlate with high performing organisations. These metrics were derived from cluster analysis done on a survey of 23,000 people across 2000 organisations.

Three and a half years on are those metrics still relevant? To this day new content marketing 1 is posted repeating the verbatim claims of the book with no critical analysis. I work as a Lead Engineer on the Engineering Insights Platform at a large technology organisation. Over the last three years the org has embraced Accelerate and delivery metrics of all sorts have been recorded. In this post I share my experience and thoughts from seeing these delivery metrics applied in practice.

To begin, a quick overview of the metrics. The State of DevOps study found that high performing organisations showed strong results in all four of these metrics:

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