How to make your software team awesome: Get the inside scoop with DORA

How to make your software team awesome: Get the inside scoop with DORA

Sep 8, 2023

What could be more exciting than grabbing all the insider DevOps knowledge about DORA metrics straight from the researchers themselves? 🌟

In this special live stream event with Nathen Harvey, Developer Relations Engineer at Google, you'll learn about his work with the Google Cloud DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) research team:

  • The philosophy behind DORA research
  • How real companies turned around with DORA (plus a cautionary tale, too)
  • How to put DORA research into context and practice on your team
  • How to get senior leaders on board with the DORA metrics

Nathen Harvey has built a career on helping teams realize their potential while aligning technology to business outcomes. He has had the privilege of working with some of the best teams and open-source communities, helping them apply the principles and practices of DevOps and SRE. Nathen is part of the Google Cloud DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) research team and a co-author of the 2021 and 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps Reports. He was an editor for 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, published by O’Reilly in 2020.

Key sections:

00:00 Starting soon

00:58 Intro and Welcome

04:22 Nathen Harvey, Google Cloud/DORA

05:50 What DORA set out to solve

07:20 Are you ready for DORA?

12:26 What the core DORA metrics measure

15:20 Metrics in the news - developer productivity

19:27 State of DevOps Report (sneak peek!)

27:15 Success story: DORA research in practice

29:50 Cautionary tale: always be improving

33:55 Metrics for teams

35:45 First 3 steps to adopt DORA

38:45 Importance of cross-functional discussions

43:05 Check out dora.dev and DevOp

45:50 Selling DORA metrics to leaders

50:10 Up next: Sleuth Automations

Resources:
www.dora.dev for:

  • State of DevOps Report
  • ROI of DevOps
  • Technical, process and cultural capabilities that drive higher software delivery and organizational performance
  • DevOps Quick Check

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