DORA | Capabilities

Technical capabilities

Code maintainability

Make it easy for developers to find, reuse, and change code, and keep dependencies up-to-date. Learn more

Continuous delivery

Make deploying software a reliable, low-risk process that can be performed on demand at any time. Learn more

Continuous integration

Learn about common mistakes, ways to measure, and how to improve on your continuous integration efforts. Learn more

Database change management

Make sure database changes don't cause problems or slow you down. Learn more

Deployment automation

Best practices and approaches for deployment automation and reducing manual intervention in the release process. Learn more

Empowering teams to choose tools

Empower teams to make informed decisions on tools and technologies. Learn how these decisions drive more effective software delivery. Learn more

Flexible infrastructure

Find out how to manage cloud infrastructure effectively so you can achieve higher levels of agility, availability, and cost visibility. Learn more

Monitoring and observability

Learn how to build tooling to help you understand and debug your production systems. Learn more

Test automation

Improve software quality by building reliable automated test suites and performing all kinds of testing throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Learn more

Test data management

Understand the right strategies for managing test data effectively along with approaches to provide fast, secure data access for testing. Learn more

Trunk-based development

Prevent merge-conflict hassles with trunk-based development practices. Learn more

Version control

A guide to implementing the right version control practices for reproducibility and traceability. Learn more

Process capabilities

Customer feedback

Drive better organizational outcomes by gathering customer feedback and incorporating it into product and feature design. Learn more

Documentation quality

Maintain accurate, well-organized, user-centric internal documentation to empower teams throughout the software development process. Learn more

Loosely coupled teams

Learn about moving from a tightly coupled architecture to service-oriented and microservice architectures without re-architecting everything at once Learn more

Monitoring systems to inform business decisions

Improve monitoring across infrastructure platforms, middleware, and the application tier, so you can provide fast feedback to developers. Learn more

Pervasive security

Build security into the software development lifecycle without compromising delivery speed. Learn more

Proactive failure notification

Set proactive failure notifications to identify critical issues and act on problems before they arise. Learn more

Streamlining change approval

Replace heavyweight change-approval processes with peer review, to get the benefits of a more reliable, compliant release process without sacrificing speed. Learn more

Team experimentation

Innovate faster by building empowered teams that can try out new ideas without approval from people outside the team. Learn more

Visibility of work in the value stream

Understand and visualize the flow of work from idea to customer outcome in order to drive higher performance. Learn more

Visual management

Learn about the principles of visual management to promote information sharing, get a common understanding of where the team is, and how to improve. Learn more

Work in process limits

Prioritize work, limit the amount of things that people are working on, and focus on getting a small number of high-priority tasks done. Learn more

Working in small batches

Create shorter lead times and faster feedback loops by working in small batches. Learn common obstacles to this critical capability and how to overcome them. Learn more

Cultural capabilities

Generative organizational culture

Discover how growing a generative, high-trust culture drives better organizational and software delivery performance. Learn more

Job satisfaction

Find out about the importance of ensuring your people have the tools and resources to do their job, and of making good use of their skills and abilities. Learn more

Learning culture

Grow a learning culture and understand its impact on your organizational performance. Learn more

Transformational leadership

Learn how effective leaders influence software delivery performance by driving the adoption of technical and product management capabilities. Learn more

Well-being

A focus on employee happiness and work environment can improve organizational performance while helping retain talent. Learn more