Take the 2025 DORA Survey!

DORA Survey Banner

2025 DORA Survey Discussion Guide

The DORA research program is dedicated to helping technology teams get better at getting better. That journey often starts with a moment of reflection.

This guide will help your team get the most out of the 2025 DORA Survey and enable you to start putting insights from the survey into immediate action.

Schedule a one-hour meeting with your extended team or community of practice. Invite everyone who plays a role in your organization’s creation and delivery of software, including, but certainly not limited to, software engineers, data scientists, product managers, quality engineers, site reliability engineers, and devops engineers.

Prework (15 minutes)

All meeting attendees should complete the 2025 DORA Survey prior to joining the discussion. Participants often tell us the survey itself is a valuable self-assessment, sparking immediate ideas for how their team can improve.

By participating, team members will:

It is best if this prework is completed immediately prior to the team meeting where you will discuss insights from the survey.

Welcome (5 minutes)

The meeting facilitator welcomes everyone and does a brief check to be sure everyone has completed the prework, taking the 2025 DORA Survey.

Tips for facilitating

Remind everyone that the goal of this discussion isn’t to share their specific answers, but to discuss the thoughts and ideas the questions prompted. The survey was the catalyst; the conversation is the goal.

Suggested discussion questions (40 minutes)

Use the questions below as potential discussion questions with the group. You may not have time to get through all of them. Give the group time to share lots of perspectives and insights. Alternatively, use conversations.dora.dev/survey as a guide through the discussion questions.

Pick a selection of the eight questions listed below that you would like to discuss as a group. We strongly recommend that you use at least these two:

Depending on the size of your group, you may want to break out into smaller groups for the discussion and reconvene for the wrap-up and next steps.

The “Aha!” moments

Highlighting our strengths

Identifying opportunities

Connecting the dots (cross-functional perspective)

Focusing on well-being

Looking ahead

The first small step

The view from 30,000 feet

Next steps (10 minutes)

End with action

Make sure to leave the last 5-10 minutes to review the “First Small Step” ideas and agree on what you’ll actually try.

Last updated: June 27, 2025