· 1 min read
AI's return on investment is a property of the delivery system
DORA's 2026 ROI report models real money on both sides of the ledger, and the deciding variable is not the tool. It is the pipeline downstream of it.
#dora#ai#roi#delivery
Metrics
6 articles
· 2 min read
Change failure rate is the one DORA metric you cannot game
Of the four DORA keys, one resists gaming, encodes your definition of failure, and starts the only argument worth having. A field guide to using it well.
#dora#metrics#reliability#delivery
· 1 min read
Goodhart's law has a bibliography
The phrasing everyone quotes came from an anthropologist studying university audits. The original context predicts your dashboard's failure modes better than the aphorism does.
#goodhart#metrics#incentives
· 1 min read
The productivity metric that became a target in public
The McKinsey productivity piece and the practitioner response to it, three years on. Both sides were right about different things, which is the lesson.
#metrics#productivity#goodhart
· 1 min read
Productivity was never one number
The SPACE framework said it precisely five years ago, and organizations keep relearning it the expensive way. A reading guide for managers under dashboard pressure.
#space#metrics#productivity
· 1 min read
The thirteen hours nobody budgeted
Stripe measured what engineers actually spend their weeks on. The maintenance number is famous. The composition of it is the finding.
#tech-debt#maintenance#evidence