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DORA

Core Model

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Capabilities
Climate for learning
Code Maintainability
Documentation quality
Empowering teams to choose tools
Generative culture
Fast flow
Continuous delivery
Database change management
Deployment automation
Flexible infrastructure
Loosely coupled teams
Streamlining change approval
Version control
Working in small batches
Fast feedback
Continuous integration
Monitoring and observability
Resilience engineering
Pervasive security
Test automation
Test data management
predict
Performance
Software delivery measured by
Four key metrics
Change lead time
Deployment frequency
Change fail percentage
Failed deployment recovery time
Reliability measured by
Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Measurement coverage
Measurement focus
Target optimization
Target compliance
predicts
Outcomes
Organizational performance
Commercial Performance
Non-commercial performance
Well-being
Job satisfaction
Productivity
Reduced burnout
Reduced rework

About this model: DORA Core is a collection of capabilities, metrics, and outcomes that represent the most firmly-established findings from across the history and breadth of DORA’s research program. Core is derived from DORA’s ongoing research, including the analyses presented in our annual Accelerate State of DevOps Reports. Core is intended to be used as a guide in practitioner contexts: it deliberately trails the research, evolving more conservatively. The concepts and relationships shown in the Core Model have been repeatedly demonstrated by our research, and have been successfully used by software engineering teams to prioritize continuous improvement. (FAQ)

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