⚡ TL;DR: Measure delivery with the four DORA keys: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time. The key move is computing them from CI and git data while measuring the system, not gaming the people.

Contents

Why "are we shipping well?" is so hard to answer

What DORA actually measures

The picture: one change, four measurements

The four keys at a glance

Computing the metrics from CI + git data

Improving each metric, without gaming it

Don't game the metrics: measure the system, not the people

Common mistakes that cost hours

Takeaways

Where to go next

Why "are we shipping well?" is so hard to answer

Someone in leadership asks: "Is our delivery getting faster or slower?" The room goes quiet. One person says deploys feel slow. Another says they feel fine. A third pulls up a Jira burndown that measures something else entirely. Everyone has a vibe; nobody has a number. The conversation ends with "let's circle back" and nothing changes.

DORA metrics end that argument.…