Data from 32,000+ professionals
During the research, the team collected data from over 32,000 professionals worldwide and analyzed it to gain an in-depth understanding of DevOps practices and capabilities that drive performance.
Key metrics that drive performance
The team identified four key metrics, namely Deployment Frequency (DF), Lead Time for Changes (LT), Mean Time to Restore (MTTR), and Change Failure Rate (CFR), that serve as a guide to measure the performance of the software development team.
Over 7 years of DevOps research
The DORA team has conducted research for seven years to identify the key metrics that precisely indicate the performance of the DevOps initiative.