As a follow-up to yesterday’s reader question, I was asked:

Do you use any metrics to work out how effectively the team are delivering?

Of course, with all due respect to Goodhart’s law, the DORA metrics are often a good place to start:

• Deployment Frequency — How often an organization successfully releases to production
• Lead Time for Changes — The amount of time it takes a commit to get into production
• Change Failure Rate — The percentage of deployments causing a failure in production
• Time to Restore Service — How long it takes an organization to recover from a failure in production

However, you don’t necissarily need to even measure these metrics for them to be a useful guide, as Dave Mangot discussed with us on the most recent episode of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) Metrics with Dave Mangot.