Key Takeaways
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DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics are a ubiquitous measure of DevOps performance. These metrics are used in nearly every enterprise engaged in software development. DORA metrics help measure DevOps maturity, identify bottlenecks, and guide quality and process improvements. Despite their popularity, DORA metrics are generally considered difficult to measure and are primarily used by technical teams within the context of their respective domains.
With the proliferation of DevOps tools generating data for DORA metrics, and different teams across enterprises using a variety of tools, it is increasingly challenging to consolidate such data consistently across teams. This process is typically manual, time-consuming, and error-prone, often resulting in incorrect or outdated data.
For instance, a large financial services organization invested significant resources over two years to build an in-house system for collecting and reporting on DORA metrics across hundreds of applications. This substantial investment highlights both the value of enterprise DORA metrics and the difficulty of implementing them.
Most enterprises need to measure and track various metrics, such as Agile and Flow metrics, to gain a holistic measure of the health of a software product value stream. These metrics are typically used for local optimization, rather than global optimization that spans product value streams, portfolios, and divisions. This lack of effective measurement at scale can result in misleading conclusions, potentially optimizing individual silos at the expense of the holistic value stream.
Senior managers and executives often find it difficult to interpret metrics, such as DORA and Flow, in the context of their business needs and outcomes. This is especially true for teams in non-digital native organizations. However, as teams pursue digital transformations, it is crucial to measure and track DORA metrics at scale, particularly for senior executives. Years of DORA research indicate that organizations with high DORA maturity are more likely to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals, and to achieve higher market cap growth.
ValueOps Insights is an analytics solution that aligns enterprises by measuring and improving the performance of their digital value streams, resulting in better business outcomes. The solution provides increased visibility into product value stream performance for all stakeholders, from engineers to executives, by making it easy to collect, normalize, correlate, and analyze data from multiple sources across the value stream.
Primarily, technical operators generate DORA metrics for the consumption of their respective teams. By automatically synthesizing the data at appropriate levels, ValueOps Insights democratizes access to DORA metrics, allowing senior leaders and executives to benefit from this intelligence.
Enterprise DORA metrics offer numerous benefits for different stakeholders:
ValueOps Insights offers an out-of-the-box solution for measuring and tracking DORA metrics at scale, promoting better alignment between business outcomes and engineering capabilities. The solution correlates DORA metrics with other metrics, enabling better optimization of the value stream.
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