DORA metrics
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A set of software delivery metrics used to assess engineering and deployment performance.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 4 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 50%.
Evidence (4)
- 7The New Stack·10/4/2026researchAI Agents Turn CI into a Bottleneck
The article argues that AI coding agents have sharply increased pull request and test volume, making continuous integration slower and more costly. It says faster runners and smarter test selection help, but the deeper issue is that CI only verifies a repository, not the full distributed system, so failures can still slip through between services.
- 5The New Stack·8/19/2026researchCoding agents are getting formal onboarding files
The article argues that companies are increasingly creating dedicated onboarding files for coding agents, such as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and GEMINI.md, to improve build and task success. It contrasts this rapid optimization for agents with the often neglected documentation and onboarding experience provided to human developers, while noting broader lessons about batching, context switching, and software delivery.
- 6InfoQ·7/30/2026researchDORA 2025 Research on AI in Software Development
DORA’s 2025 research argues that AI is best viewed as an amplifier, with the biggest benefits coming from improving the surrounding organizational system. The report introduces team profiles and success capabilities that software teams can use to translate the research into practice.
- 3InfoQ·7/16/2026framework_updateHow to Build a Platform Developers Will Actually Use
InfoQ highlights guidance from Lucas Hornung and Christian Matthaei on why platform teams often build capabilities that developers ignore. The talk emphasizes staying visible to management, listening to stakeholders, measuring value with metrics such as DORA, and using narratives to make developer pain concrete.