Data-Driven Engineering
Starts with DORA Metrics
Seeing and understanding your DORA metrics (CFR, MTTR, Cycle Time, DF) is a great first step in building a comprehensive metrics program for your
engineering team. With the LinearB software delivery management platform, your DORA metrics are:
- Available in minutes
- Displayed simply and with more context
- Part of a holistic visibility and improvement engine
We correlate data across your tools to identify
bottlenecks and automate developer workflow optimization.
Engineering Metrics Are
Only Half the Battle
Modern engineering leaders have two BIG jobs: operational excellence in software delivery and driving business outcomes. DORA metrics are great for measuring efficiency and stability, making them indispensable for the first role. The trouble starts when you use them for the second role. That’s because DORA metrics alone don’t translate to business outcomes.
Too often leaders stop at DORA metrics and begin improvement efforts after gaining this visibility–usually with more process and meetings (gasp!). DORA metrics should be used as one of many data points in a holistic metrics program that helps leaders fulfill the dual mandate of engineering excellence and business impact.
Too often leaders stop at DORA metrics and begin improvement efforts after gaining this visibility–usually with more process and meetings (gasp!). DORA metrics should be used as one of many data points in a holistic metrics program that helps leaders fulfill the dual mandate of engineering excellence and business impact.
DORA Metrics Are Just the Beginning
When building your metrics program, DORA metrics should be considered a good milestone, not the destination. DORA metrics are lagging indicators–calculated and measured after a piece of code has gone through the software development process. Moreover, DORA metrics are engineering-focused; the business doesn’t care about an incremental change in Change Failure Rate (CFR).
LinearB provides deep visibility into DORA metrics and the leading indicators–like the size of PRs. It’s these metrics that will have the most impact on engineering outcomes–which is why they’re so crucial.
Get Dora MetricsLinearB provides deep visibility into DORA metrics and the leading indicators–like the size of PRs. It’s these metrics that will have the most impact on engineering outcomes–which is why they’re so crucial.
Use Data to Set and
Meet Improvement Goals
View Metrics
Get Context
Show Impact
Work Your Way
Many solutions have DORA metrics–but not much else. LinearB believes DORA metrics are a great start and provides them in minutes, right out of the box. But that’s just the beginning.
- Get your DORA metrics instantly with LinearB
- Work your way with a flexible tool that aligns to your team
- Use metrics that are the closest thing to quantifying productivity
Once you’ve got DORA metrics, LinearB provides additional context and deeper information with a single click.
- Dig into the phases of cycle time
- Compare your team with industry peers
- See your leading indicators like PR size and PRs merged without review
Engineering metrics visibility (and improvement) doesn’t mean much without aligning R&D effort to the business, predictable priority feature delivery, customer retention, and cost savings.
- Walk into executive check ins with confidence
- Use DORA metrics to make resourcing decisions
- Showcase engineering health to the business in their terms
LinearB offers maximum flexibility with options for how your data is collected and presented as well as aligning to your ways of working–instead of forcing you to adopt new methodologies to use the tool. LinearB gives you the freedom to choose how you:
- Detect releases
- Structure your data
- Build your teams and projects
- Showcase your metrics dashboards and views
View Metrics
Get Context
Show Impact
Work Your Way
Many solutions have DORA metrics–but not much else. LinearB believes DORA metrics are a great start and provides them in minutes, right out of the box. But that’s just the beginning.
Start using DORA
- Get your DORA metrics instantly with LinearB
- Work your way with a flexible tool that aligns to your team
- Use metrics that are the closest thing to quantifying productivity
Start using DORA
Once you’ve got DORA metrics, LinearB provides additional context and deeper information with a single click.
Look at Leading Indicators
- Dig into the phases of cycle time
- Compare your team with industry peers
- See your leading indicators like PR size and PRs merged without review
Look at Leading Indicators
Engineering metrics visibility (and improvement) doesn’t mean much without aligning R&D effort to the business, predictable priority feature delivery, customer retention, and cost savings.
Show Engineering’s Impact
- Walk into executive check ins with confidence
- Use DORA metrics to make resourcing decisions
- Showcase engineering health to the business in their terms
Show Engineering’s Impact
LinearB offers maximum flexibility with options for how your data is collected and presented as well as aligning to your ways of working–instead of forcing you to adopt new methodologies to use the tool. LinearB gives you the freedom to choose how you:
Get Started
- Detect releases
- Structure your data
- Build your teams and projects
- Showcase your metrics dashboards and views
Get Started
“LinearB makes you feel more confident. It lets me know that our foundation is good and that we’re improving everyday.”
Jon Sowler
VP of Engineering |
Unbabel
“The DORA metrics from LinearB are awesome! I really, really like those DORA metrics. That’s what we’re focused on for engineering.”
Corey Olsen
VP of Engineering |
L2L
“LinearB makes you feel more confident. It lets me know that our foundation is good and that we’re improving everyday.”
Jon Sowler
VP of Engineering |
Unbabel
“The DORA metrics from LinearB are awesome! I really, really like those DORA metrics. That’s what we’re focused on for engineering.”
Corey Olsen
VP of Engineering |
L2L
DORA 101
Conceived of at Google, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) identified four metrics that are the best indicators of engineering team health, performance, and productivity. Broken into velocity (Cycle Time & Deployment Frequency) and stability (MTTR & Change Failure Rate), teams of all shapes and sizes should not only track these metrics, but also apply strategies for their continuous improvement.
So Much More than
Just DORA Metrics
One DORA Dashboard
Get your team’s DORA metrics in a single location, out-of-the-box
Cycle Time Breakdown
Find and address your Cycle Time bottlenecks faster
Dig into Leading Indicators
Gain visibility into the metrics that REALLY impact the DORA four, project delivery, and business outcomes
Align to How you Work
Customize your release strategy, team makeup, metrics calculations, and more
Automate Improvement
Prioritize your work, keep team goals top of mind, and automate annoying manual tasks–all from familiar tools
Align Your Team
Set team improvement goals and make it easy to attain them with automation
One DORA Dashboard
Get your team’s DORA metrics in a single location, out-of-the-box
Cycle Time Breakdown
Find and address your Cycle Time bottlenecks faster
Dig into Leading Indicators
Gain visibility into the metrics that REALLY impact the DORA four, project delivery, and business outcomes
Align to How you Work
Customize your release strategy, team makeup, metrics calculations, and more
Automate Improvement
Prioritize your work, keep team goals top of mind, and automate annoying manual tasks–all from familiar tools
Align Your Team
Set team improvement goals and make it easy to attain them with automation
Build a Robust Metrics (and Improvement) Program
Automatically Aggregate, Benchmark, and Present Your Metrics
You can’t improve what you can’t measure. LinearB uses standard integrations and powerful API to help you find all of your metrics from project management to post-delivery incident response tools for a detailed and customized view of DevOps workflows. It then presents this information in intuitive dashboards that provide additional context and proactive improvement suggestions.Identify Improvement Opportunities and Set Goals
Once metrics are collected (a matter of minutes), you can begin a deeper investigation into where your operational bottlenecks are and how you can optimize workflows. With LinearB you can connect the dots from DORA metrics to resource allocation to revenue impact and set improvement goals to address the root cause.Automate Alignment and Improvement Across Teams
Now that you’ve identified your bottlenecks, set your goals, and come up with an improvement plan, it’s time to take action. LinearB helps you meet these goals and see tangible improvement quickly with automated tools that help align your teams to set goals, offload manual work, minimize distraction, and reduce productivity-killing context switching–so your team can meet their goals and continuously improve.