DevOps: What is DORA and Why You Should Care

Here is an introduction to DORA, and Dr. Nicole Forsgren, who was a Ph.D. student in MIS here.

Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Dr. Nicole Forsgren launched a new company called DORA. DORA stands for DevOps Research and Assessment.

DORA and the individuals behind it have been providing a lot of the science and analysis behind the State of DevOps survey and report for a number of years now (I posted the 2016 State of DevOps report on D2L). Here is the 2017 State of DevOps report (with new measures).

But what is DORA really about?  What is the business model to generate revenue? According to DORA CEO, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, after developing the annual State of DevOps Survey for years, they now have something like 25,000 responses over the past years. DORA has been able to create baselines and models from which they can compare how your organization compares to others who have taken the survey. They can pinpoint where you are lacking or not performing up to par, as well as where you are over performing. The entire process is built on rock solid statistical modeling and has already proven itself with several large enterprises.