Leadership wants DORA metrics on a wall. What do you measure, and where do the numbers start lying?

Reciting metric names scores low. Naming the definition decisions that corrupt each one, and the gaming that starts when targets appear, scores high.

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Reciting metric names scores low. Naming the definition decisions that corrupt each one, and the gaming that starts when targets appear, scores high.

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