Nicole Forsgren: commitment

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…Yeah. And then, their mean time to their fail rate is less than 10%, and their mean time to recovery is less than an hour. Basically you're doing great. That's kind of the message of this framework, at least. And if you're not doing it through brute force and killing yourself. Now can I jump in here, please? Because then people are like, "But how do I do this?" So let's say that you're not in that category, and you're like because this is the next... this is the piece of criticism I'll get about DORA, right. People are like, "Well, all you've done is make me feel bad. You gave me these metrics. You've judged me. Now I feel bad." And then I'm like, "So there's DORA there. " I wrote a book called Accelerate, which is the first four years of the research compiled and put together and expanded in a few things. And I'll joke, "There's a whole rest of the book, right." DORA is best known for the four metrics, but there's an entire research program supporting it. So it's not just these four metrics. What we find is that if you improve a set of capabilities... I loved your question around what is DevOps? DevOps is not a toolchain you buy. Marketing teams labeled toolchains DevOps because they wanted your money. DevOps is a set of capabilities. They're technical capabilities. They're architectural capabilities. They're cultural capabilities. They are lean management practices that predict speed and stability. And then speed and stability gives you money, right, because it's your ability to create these features that give you money. So when you work backwards, if you want money, you get the features fast. If you want the features fast and stable, you do the things. And the things are technical capabilities like automated testing, CI/CD. And CI/CD is continuous integration/continuous deployment, is that right?…

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