DORA - The Allstacks Way

Applying DORA Metrics to your business

When it comes to implementing DORA metrics, organizations lean on Allstacks to facilitate approaches that improve both DevOps as well as overall software development health. Software teams are faced with two options:

1. Follow a prescriptive "as written" approach to DORA. 

2. Follow an applied approach that tailors the metrics to their specific needs and objectives. 

Our recommendation is to be both aware of DORA as written, but to apply the metrics situationally in a way that makes sense for your organization.

Our perspective on an applied DORA strategy

The guides below describe the “Allstacks Way” of applying DORA. Organizations adopting DORA do so in order to understand how development teams are performing, identify where inefficiencies lie, and find ways to improve. The “Allstacks Way” addresses this problem at your organization holistically, rather than relying on one prescriptive approach. After all, organizations and teams aren’t all equal in terms of size, complexity, or how they quantify and qualify success. DORA provides a great baseline that we’ve been able to make our own here at Allstacks. For each of the four DORA metrics discussed below, we provide a typical example of that metric in Allstacks, however, the metric that’s ideal for you might take different forms.