Inside the Workflow Metrics of Elite Dev Teams
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DORA metrics aren’t enough on their own. Here's how dev teams can make the leap to elite performance by focusing on pull request size and dev workflow while improving their cycle time.
  • alcasa@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    All this talk of elite makes the article so annoying to read and makes it difficult to take seriously…

  • Corbin@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hi! Please don’t link anything from this subdomain again. It was considered a plague back on Reddit, and this sort of content-free post shouldn’t be encouraged here either.

  • muhanga@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This really devolves into “good teams can deploy daily, can raise a small PRs and have small number of rework”. And this is like… thank you, but it is obvious. If team is able to do this things constantly it is probably a good team.

    DORA says that if your team is able to do same pattern (as they show) it will be “elite/good” team. This really smell like a cargo cult. And managers are already using DORA metrics as good/bad teams metric.

    This is clear Goodhart’s Law case: "“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”. So either DORA knowingly did nothing to protect against metric gaming or they didn’t considered impact they will make. Neither of those is a good in my opinion.

    So yeah I don’t like DORA in it current iteration.