DORA | DevOps capabilities

Technical capabilities

Learn about moving from a tightly coupled architecture to service-oriented and microservice architectures without re-architecting everything at once Learn more

Process capabilities

Customer feedback

Drive better organizational outcomes by gathering customer feedback and incorporating it into product and feature design. Learn more

Documentation quality

core

Maintain accurate, well-organized, user-centric internal documentation to empower teams throughout the software development process. Learn more

Monitoring systems to inform business decisions

Improve monitoring across infrastructure platforms, middleware, and the application tier, so you can provide fast feedback to developers. Learn more

Proactive failure notification

Set proactive failure notifications to identify critical issues and act on problems before they arise. Learn more

Streamlining change approval

core

Replace heavyweight change-approval processes with peer review, to get the benefits of a more reliable, compliant release process without sacrificing speed. Learn more

Team experimentation

Innovate faster by building empowered teams that can try out new ideas without approval from people outside the team. Learn more

Visibility of work in the value stream

Understand and visualize the flow of work from idea to customer outcome in order to drive higher performance. Learn more

Visual management

Learn about the principles of visual management to promote information sharing, get a common understanding of where the team is, and how to improve. Learn more

Work in process limits

Prioritize work, limit the amount of things that people are working on, and focus on getting a small number of high-priority tasks done. Learn more

Working in small batches

Create shorter lead times and faster feedback loops by working in small batches. Learn common obstacles to this critical capability and how to overcome them. Learn more

Cultural capabilities

Generative organizational culture

core

Discover how growing a generative, high-trust culture drives better organizational and software delivery performance. Learn more

How to transform

Find out about the importance of ensuring your people have the tools and resources to do their job, and of making good use of their skills and abilities. Learn more

Job satisfaction

Find out about the importance of ensuring your people have the tools and resources to do their job, and of making good use of their skills and abilities. Learn more

Learning culture

Grow a learning culture and understand its impact on your organizational performance. Learn more

Transformational leadership

Learn how effective leaders influence software delivery performance by driving the adoption of technical and product management capabilities. Learn more

Wellbeing

core

A focus on employee happiness and work environment can improve organizational performance while helping retain talent. Learn more

Capability catalog

Technical capabilities

Code maintainability

Continuous delivery

Continuous integration

Database change management

Deployment automation

Empowering teams to choose tools

Flexible infrastructure

Loosely coupled architecture

Monitoring and observability

Shifting left on security

Test automation

Test data management

Trunk-based development

Version control

Process capabilities

Customer feedback

Documentation quality

Monitoring systems to inform business decisions

Proactive failure notification

Streamlining change approval

Team experimentation

Visibility of work in the value stream

Visual management

Work in process limits

Working in small batches

Cultural capabilities

Generative organizational culture

How to transform

Job satisfaction

Learning culture

Transformational leadership

Wellbeing