Capabilities for Building High-performing Technology Teams
summary
DORA’s recent research ties concrete practices to outcomes: teams that adopt SRE practices show higher performance and 52% of respondents use some SRE techniques; the report measures four key metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore, change fail rate) and warns that chasing telemetry can cost 18–24 months building dashboards without improving delivery. Findings include cloud feature use over blanket multi‑cloud, docs rewarded in promotions, trunk-based development and CI matter, and teams with 50% less burnout during the pandemic have healthier culture.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51State of DevOps research
- 3:36Performance profiles and trends
- 4:37Four key delivery metrics
- 7:07Security in software delivery
- 9:14Response to Heartbleed and Log4j
- 10:43Latest DevOps report findings
- 12:31Cloud and multi-cloud strategies
- 14:15Documentation impact
- 14:57Security in development cycle
- 15:40Team culture and remote work
- 16:45Dashboards and metrics caution
- 19:57Capabilities for delivery performance
- 21:22Collaboration and improvement
- 23:08Team survey and planning
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