But I don't feel elite: A look beyond DORA

As a software engineering leader, Mike Stahnke’s teams usually fell into the “Elite” tier of the DORA framework. There was only one problem. He didn’t feel elite. So he set out to find the right metrics and approach to optimize how his teams work and avoid diminishing returns from the data. In this webinar, Mike will share what he’s learned so far on his metrics journey and how engineering organizations can go beyond DORA metrics to take their data and teams to the next level.

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1. But I don’t feel elite:
 A look beyond DORA Michael Stahnke VP Engineering at flox (floxdev.com) @stahnma
2. Edu Career 9 Years 8 Years 4 Years A few months
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9. We are here. @stahnma
10. Do I believe this? @stahnma
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13. Where have I found my orgs historically? @stahnma
14. We are here. @stahnma
15. I don’t feel elite. @stahnma
16. Why don’t I feel elite? @stahnma
17. What truly is elite? @stahnma
18. Moving fast with confidence. @stahnma
19. Move from IC reported to aggregate @stahnma
20. Move from reported to derived @stahnma
21. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pillarofautumn/13770741955
22. What are the categories of things I care about? @stahnma
23. Is engineering throughput good? @stahnma
24. Is that throughput meaningful? @stahnma
25. If I add more engineers, will we go faster? 
 
 Can I prove that? @stahnma
26. Metric Thoughts Layer Cake Quality People Throughput @stahnma
27. Throughput Measurements @stahnma
28. deployments / week @stahnma
29. Does adding more developers make things go faster? @stahnma
30. deploys / dev / week @stahnma
31. deploys / dev / week @stahnma
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33. ratio of distraction action @stahnma
34. narrow vs wide work @stahnma
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36. People @stahnma
37. Are our systems easy to work on? @stahnma
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39. fungible engineering? @stahnma
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41. normalization @stahnma
42. % of code provided 
 by the platform. @stahnma
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44. How quickly are they productive? @stahnma
45. 5th contribution (PR) @stahnma
46. deploys / dev / week @stahnma
47. Quality @stahnma
48. successful deployments / week @stahnma
49. rollbacks 
 (or roll forwards) @stahnma
50. understanding changes happening all around you @stahnma
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52. Metric Thoughts Layer Cake Quality People Throughput @stahnma
53. 53 Mental Model for Metrics Baseline DevOps Metrics I don’t feel elite. Move Quickly with Confidence Throughput Quality Normalization Fungibility Rollbacks (or forwards) Deployments per Week Deploys / Dev / Week Successful deploys Narrow vs Wide Time to 5th PR Changes Understood Start Status Questions @stahnma People Metric Metric Metric Themes
54. 54 Mental Model for Metrics Baseline DevOps Metrics I don’t feel elite. Move Quickly with Confidence Throughput Quality Normalization Fungibility Rollbacks (or forwards) Deployments per Week Deploys / Dev / Week Successful deploys Narrow vs Wide Time to 5th PR Changes Understood Start Status Questions @stahnma People Metric Metric Metric Themes
55. 55 Mental Model for Metrics Baseline DevOps Metrics I don’t feel elite. Move Quickly with Confidence Throughput Quality Normalization Fungibility Rollbacks (or forwards) Deployments per Week Deploys / Dev / Week Successful deploys Narrow vs Wide Time to 5th PR Changes Understood Start Status Questions @stahnma People Metric Metric Metric Themes
56. Summary • What do you want your metrics to tell you? • Can you correlate the movement with intentional action and improved outcomes? • Do you have baseline metrics already? • How have you joined these up with product management? • Deploys / Dev / Week is the _one_ I would start with @stahnma
57. Thank You Michael Stahnke flox @stahnma