Concept Map for DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
May 17, 2025 · View on GitHub
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Description
Shows a concept map of the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) State of DevOps model
Concepts
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Change fail rate | What percentage of changes to production or released to users result in degraded service (e.g., lead to service impairment or service outage) and subsequently require remediation (e.g., require a hotfix, rollback, fix forward, patch)? |
| Change lead time | How long does it take to go from code committed to code successfully running in production? |
| Commercial performance | |
| Deployment frequency | How often does your organization deploy code to production or release it to end users? |
| How to empower software delivery teams as a business leader | |
| How to transform | |
| Less burnout | Less physical, mental, or emotional exhaustion caused by overwork or stress |
| Less deployment pain | A measure of the fear and anxiety that engineers and technical staff feel when they push code into production |
| Less rework | Fixing things that weren’t done right the first time and, like change fail rate, is a proxy measure for quality. |
| Non-Commercial performance | |
| Organizational performance | Measures the ability of an organization to achieve commercial and non-commercial goals |
| Software delivery performance | Software delivery performance is the ability to develop and deliver software with speed and stability. |
| Time to restore service | How long does it generally take to restore service when a service incident or a defect that impacts users occurs (e.g., unplanned outage, service impairment)? |
Other Relationships
| From | Name | To | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial performance | leads to | Organizational performance | |
| Non-Commercial performance | leads to | Organizational performance | |
| Time to restore service | measure for | Software delivery performance | |
| Change fail rate | measure for | Software delivery performance | |
| Deployment frequency | measure for | Software delivery performance |
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