Dora Assessment 24 key capabilities checklist
Rank your team’s capabilities with a 1 to 5 scale to review where to target efforts. Focus not on fixing the capability but the root cause that has stopped this from happening already.
Review of the 24 key capabilities of the Accelerate DevOps survey outcomes
Scoring: 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent) Dated:
| Continuous Delivery | score |
|---|---|
| 1. Use version control for all production artifacts | ? |
| 2. Automate your deployment processes | ? |
| 3. Implement continuous integration (CI) | ? |
| 4. Use trunk-based development processes | ? |
| 5. Implement test-automation | ? |
| 6. Support test data management | ? |
| 7. Shift left on security | ? |
| 8. Implement continuous delivery (CD). | ? |
| Architecture | score |
|---|---|
| 9. Use a loosely coupled architecture | ? |
| 10. Architect for empowered teams. | ? |
| Product and Process | score |
|---|---|
| 11. Gather and implement customer feedback | ? |
| 12. Make the work visible through value streams | ? |
| 13. Work in small batches | ? |
| 14. Foster and enable team experimentation. | ? |
| Lean Management and Monitoring | score |
|---|---|
| 15. Have a lightweight change approval process | ? |
| 16. Monitor across application and infrastructure to inform business decisions | ? |
| 17. Check system health proactively | ? |
| 18. Improve processes and manage work with WIP limits | ? |
| 19. Visualize work to monitor quality and communicate throughout the team | ? |
| Cultural | score |
|---|---|
| 20. Support a generative Westrum culture | ? |
| 21. Encourage and support learning | ? |
| 22. Support and facilitate collaboration among teams | ? |
| 23. Provide resources and tools that make work meaningful | ? |
| 24. Support or embody transformational leadership | ? |