Another story from Don's time at Atlassian, this time with Hipchat (the OG chat service before Slack became popular), where the small and mighty team was doing software delivery in a very modern way (at the time).
A story from Don's time at Atlassian back when they tended to release software every 2-3 months, and why developers need to be involved in deploying to production.
Deployment Frequency is defined by DORA and in the Accelerate book as '"a software deployment to production or an app store", and is used as a proxy for batch size. Learn more about this engineering productivity metric in this 2-minute explainer video.
MTTR is defined by DORA and in the Accelerate book as '"how quickly a service can be restored after a failure". Learn more about this engineering productivity metric in this 2-minute explainer video.
Change Lead Time is defined by DORA and in the Accelerate book as '"the time it takes to go from code committed to code successfully running in production". Learn more about this engineering productivity metric in this 2-minute explainer video.
Change Failure Rate is defined by DORA and in the Accelerate book as '"the percentage of changes to production, including for example software releases and infrastructure configuration changes, that fail". Learn more about this engineering productivity metric in this 2-minute explainer video.
DORA metrics, also known as Accelerate metrics, are universally lauded as good metrics for tracking Engineering team productivity and software delivery performance. Learn the whats and whys of the four DORA metrics: Deployment Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure Rate and Mean Time to Recovery, and how to use them the right way. LINKS SLEUTH A deploy-based Accelerate Metrics tracker both managers and developers love.
Can team productivity be tracked without spying on your software developers? Bob and Spike seek to answer this question as they get to the bottom of the measuring manager mystery.
What side projects make terrible startups? What should you avoid when trying to make the transition? In this episode of Dev Matters, Don and his guest Dylan Etkin discuss side projects and lessons learned taking Sleuth from a side project to a startup. This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience on Twitch.