Template inspired by DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) providing the insights measuring overall performance of software development teams. IT and executive leaders will use these metrics to compare themselves with market standards and build highly performing teams.
Organizations must not use this dashboard as a whole to benchmark performance, but as collections of insights to be complemented with other digital or human factors to build a comprehensive assessment of their performance (read more here).
Insights
Deployment Frequency: Measures the capacity of the company to deploy code to production. In a nutshell, this metric informs on your team's ability to ship features, enhancement or fixes to users.
Mean Time To Recovery: Measures how long it takes an organization to recover from a failure in production (Google definition). Essentially, it informs on the capacity to handle incidents and restore service.
Issue Lead Time For Changes: Measures the amount of time it takes an active Issue (from any project management tool) to get released/closed. Organizations use this metric to breakdown their overall cycle time.
PR Lead Time For Changes: Measures the amount of time it takes a commit (that is associated to a PR) to get into production. Organizations use this metric to breakdown their overall cycle time.
Bug Lead Time For Changes: Measures the amount of time it takes a Bug (from any tool) to get closed. Organizations use this metric to breakdown their overall cycle time.