Is It Worth Tracking DORA Metrics in My Organization?

I'm a big fan of DORA metrics! They are actual outcome metrics, focusing on speed and stability rather than just vanity data. With your setup using GitLab, you can pull data from their API that tracks deployments and merge requests, making it pretty easy to visualize everything in Grafana.

We started tracking DORA metrics using Datadog, which already had most of our deployment and incident data integrated. Setting up the dashboards was pretty straightforward and it actually helped us identify how long code reviews were sitting around before they got merged. It made a noticeable difference for us.

I still can’t believe DORA stands for deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate. The acronym is pretty puzzling! Anyway, I thought it was named after my old DHCP phases! Need to brush up on acronyms.

Our compliance team handles DORA metrics tracking, and most of our data is in ServiceNow. It's been really beneficial for us, and it keeps everything organized. If you have a similar setup, it could save you a lot of hassle.

Honestly, I'm not convinced by the DORA metrics. They sound useful, but sometimes they seem like just vanity metrics to me. Have you checked out SPACE metrics instead? They might give you a better insight into team productivity without the fluff.