Dashboards, metrics frameworks, acronyms, scorecards, tools — in the rush to quantify and optimize every aspect of software development, our industry forgot that metrics were never supposed to measure productivity at all .
DORA metrics are not about individual performance or a tool for comparing teams. The website for DORA — Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment team — still reminds us that these four metrics — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to restore and change failure rate — are not productivity metrics….

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