DORA metrics aren’t enough on their own. By focusing on pull request size, dev teams can quickly improve their cycle times and development workflow and make the leap to elite performance.
Since its inception in 2016, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) program has provided dev teams with some great metrics to guide them on their journey to performing at an elite level. But DORA metrics should only be one piece of the puzzle.
Make no mistake, tracking DORA metrics are important and useful – just not for everything that an engineering team strives to do, such as showing how developers directly impact the business bottom line.