8 articles
· 1 min read
The research keeps finding the same thing, teams keep arguing anyway, and the argument usually is not about branching. What the fight is actually over.
#trunk-based#delivery#dora#batch-size
· 1 min read
Work in progress, throughput, and time in system are one equation. Your delivery numbers already obey it, whether or not anyone is looking.
#queues#wip#delivery
· 2 min read
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
· 2 min read
One public writeup of a real release-process rebuild, and the three transferable decisions inside it that had nothing to do with tooling.
#delivery#release-process#case-study
· 2 min read
The research says platforms help and hurt on different clocks. A guide to reading your own platform investment straight, at month three and month eighteen.
#platform-engineering#dora#delivery
· 1 min read
The number is worth tracking and useless to push on. What moves it lives upstream, in queues nobody owns.
#delivery#queues#metrics
· 1 min read
The 2024 DORA report measured the paradox precisely. The mechanism is batch size, and it was in the data before AI arrived.
#dora#ai#batch-size#delivery
· 2 min read
Why this practice diagnoses before it prescribes, what a delivery diagnostic can and cannot see, and the premises we are prepared to be wrong about.
#diagnosis#delivery#method
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