February 2024 Community News

February 1, 2024 by Amanda

Hello! Thank you for all of the wonderful discussions in January! It was exciting to meet several members for the first time. We discussed what teams are focused on in 2024, Metrics, and Applying DORA in your Context. If you missed any of the discussions, you can watch intro presentations, and read event recaps on the DORA.community blog.

We will continue to explore how team’s can improve their code reviews, with a presentation by Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar and community discussion Thursday, February 8th. On February 22nd, we will have a community discussion on testing, the discussion will start with a presentation by Lisa Crispin. If you are looking to connect with fellow DORA community members, this month’s community connection is on February 14th. We will end the month with Metric Monday discussions on February 26th. More information on the events are below.

Are you located in or near Boulder, CO? The DORA Advocacy team will be in Boulder on February 20th. Let us know if you are interested in a meet up by filling out this form.

A special thank you to everyone who has participated in the DORA research, and to everyone that voted for DORA in the 2023 DevOps Dozen Community Awards. The DORA report won!! 🎉 🎉 🎉

What’s New?:

• DORA YouTube Channel
• DORA.community Blog
• DORA Quick Check

DORA.community Upcoming Events:

Community Connections (45 minutes)

We break into small groups for networking, then spend the last 10 minutes sharing as a larger group.

February 14th: 12:30pm UTC & 21:00 UTC

Community Lean Coffee Discussions (1 hour):

The discussion starts off with a brief presentation, then we use the lean coffee format for the remainder of the discussion.

Open Discussion on Code Review Use Cases - February 8th: 15:00 UTC

Code review is essential in software development nowadays. This brings certain advantages to the organization producing code (it does not matter if this is done in the open or internally as proprietary), such as better knowledge sharing process, faster onboarding of newcomers, make the organization more resilient, or help hunt bugs faster in the software production chain.

This talk will share some public use cases and rationale to do code review with real-life examples for illustration as well as open the discussion for the rest of the hour together.

Speaker: Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar, CEO @ Bitergia, President @ InnerSource Commons Foundation, CHAOSS Governing Board. Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar is a researcher and one of the founders of Bitergia, a company that provides software analytics for open and InnerSource ecosystems. Currently holding the position of Chief Executive Officer, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Izquierdo Cortázar earned a PhD in free software engineering from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community. He is an active contributor and board member of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software). He is an active member and President at the InnerSource Commons Foundation.

Testing All the Way Around the DevOps Loop - February 22nd: 20:00 UTC We hear a lot of talk about “shift left” in testing. And, if you do an internet search for “DevOps loop”, you’re likely to see images that feature a “test” phase – sometimes on the left side, sometimes on the right. But software development is not linear, and testing is not a phase. Testing is an integral part of software development. Testing activities happen all the way around the infinite DevOps loop. Let’s look at examples of where testing happens, especially in the right-hand side of that DevOps loop. And, talk about who can and should engage in those activities.

Speaker: Lisa Crispin is an independent consultant, author and speaker based in Vermont, USA. Together with Janet Gregory, she co-authored Holistic Testing: Weave Quality Into Your Product; Agile Testing Condensed: A Brief Introduction; More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team; and Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams; and the LiveLessons “Agile Testing Essentials” video course. She and Janet co-founded a training company offering two live courses world-wide: “Holistic Testing: Strategies for agile teams” and “Holistic Testing for Continuous Delivery”.

Lisa uses her long experience working as a tester on high-performing agile teams to help organizations assess and improve their quality and testing practices, and succeed with continuous delivery. She’s active in the DORA community of practice. Please visit lisacrispin.com, agiletester.ca, agiletestingfellow.com,, and linkedin.com/in/lisacrispin for details and contact information.

Metric Monday (1 hour): The discussion starts off with a brief presentation on metrics, then we use the lean coffee format for the remainder of the discussion. February 26th: 10:00 UTC & 20:00 UTC

Upcoming Conferences & Events from the community:

DevOpsDays

• Mar 13-14: Salt Lake City
• Mar 15: Los Angeles
• Mar 18-19: Kraków
• Mar 21-22: Singapore
• Apr 10-11: Raleigh
• Apr 16-17: Zurich

• Feb 15-16: DevOps.js
• Mar 18-20: SREcon Americas
• Apr 24-25: Enterprise Technology Leadership Summit Europe (Virtual)

In case you missed it:

Asynchronous Discussions:

• DORA - multiple applications
• DORA at Booking.com
• DORA success stories
• DORA vs SPACE vs DevEx
• The new DORA Quick Check

On the playlist: Catch-up on the latest community discussions on the DORA Community playlist:

• 2024 Focus
• Metric Monday
• Applying DORA in your Context

DORA around the world:

Content & Events

• How booking.com doubled their team’s delivery performance within a year as measured by DORA metrics
• Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples
• How Airbnb measures developer productivity
• DORA, SPACE, and DevEx: Choosing the Right Framework
• Applying the SPACE Framework
• DORA Core: What Is It And How It Helps Organizations Navigate Through Changes
• Getting to the Root of Engineering Improvement with DORA Core
• DORA Metrics: What are they, and what's new in 2023?
• The DORA State of DevOps Report in 1 minute
• Waydev 2023 in Review: Revolutionizing the Software Engineering Intelligence Market with DX, - - DORA Metrics, and the SPACE Framework
• 55 Fascinating DevOps Statistics You NEED To Know In 2023
• What DevOps teams need to know for 2024
• How to Quantify the ROI of Platform Engineering
• Database Change management
• Implementing the research
• Deloitte's 2023 State of DevOps Report Webinar
• 0800-DEVOPS #54 - 2023 State of DevOps Report with Nathen Harvey - CROZ
• Key findings from the 2023 State of DevOps Report | Nathen Harvey (DORA at Google)
• Insights into the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report

Thank you for your continued collaboration, we truly appreciate it!!

Smiles,

Amanda