Summary of The Data Behind DevOps: Becoming a High Performer - DORA

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This video discusses the data behind DevOps and how to become a high performer. It focuses on four key areas - technical practices, culture, product development, and customer feedback - and provides practical advice on how to improve performance.

• 00:00:00 In this video, Dr. Nicole Forbes discusses the principles of parsimonious science, which can be applied to the fields of software development and DevOps. She describes two common mistakes - focusing on outputs instead of outcomes, and measuring team velocity instead of individual productivity - and offers practical advice on how to improve performance.
• 00:05:00 The data behind DevOps reveals that those who are high performers have high throughput and stability metrics, while those who are low performers struggle with deploying and recovering quickly.
• 00:10:00 This video discusses the data behind DevOps, which shows that in order to become a high performer, organizations must focus on improving software delivery performance, as well as culture and capability. There are four key areas in which capabilities (technical practices, culture, product development, and customer feedback), predict the success of software delivery performance.
• 00:15:00 The Data Behind DevOps: Becoming a High Performer is a research report that looks at the importance of various DevOps practices in order to increase a company's performance. The report includes statistics on how meeting certain DevOps characteristics correlates with being an elite performer.
• 00:20:00 The data behind DevOps reveals that high performers are 23 times more likely to be using the cloud, open source, and DevOps practices than low performers. Outsourcing is also bad for performance, with low performers being almost four times as likely to use it.
• 00:25:00 The Data Behind DevOps discusses the importance of culture in high-performing DevOps environments. Leaders can help create a culture of innovation by providing autonomy and retrospectives for team members. This information has been found to positively impact software delivery, organizational performance, and stability.
• 00:30:00 In this talk, Nicole discusses how DevOps can be improved, with a focus on governance and integration times. She provides evidence that there is no significant difference between industries when it comes to DevOps performance.