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> DORA metrics I generally agree with your point, with the caveat that metrics like DORA are the first to be gamed when applied to an organization. It's the u
by makeitdouble 3y ago
> DORA metrics
I generally agree with your point, with the caveat that metrics like DORA are the first to be gamed when applied to an organization.
It's the usual cycle of applying the metrics first in an informal way, then using it for team/process evaluations as it seems to be somewhat reliable, then teams start to reajust how they make the tickets and the deploy cycle in ways that dramatically increase the metrics while reality hasn't changed much.
Analyzing productivity with completely objective metrics will I think always bear these flaws (I'd assume even measuring things at the highest level as "wages vs revenue" would be gamed on how wages and revenue are calculated ?)
- herval 3y agowhen applied as a metric, yes - so is any metric that becomes a goal (goodhart's law?). To _assess_ an organization, they're pretty solid