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Batch size, two years after DORA measured the AI paradox
Two years after DORA quantified the AI paradox, the pattern in our own reviews has resolved into something specific enough to act on.
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6 articles
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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.
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Trunk-based development: the evidence and the tantrums
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.
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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.
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Platform engineering pays rent in queue time
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.
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AI made coding faster and delivery slower
The 2024 DORA report measured the paradox precisely. The mechanism is batch size, and it was in the data before AI arrived.
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