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date: 2025-02-24
title: Dora Assessment Template

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_Notes: Complete this using a broad assessment and revisit every x time period (a time in keeping with the pace of the organisation, e.g. 6 months or 2 years)_

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 | 1 |
| 2. Automate your deployment processes | 1 |
| 3. Implement continuous integration (CI) | 1 |
| 4. Use trunk-based development processes | 1 |
| 5. Implement test-automation | 1 |
| 6. Support test data management | 1 |
| 7. Shift left on security | 1 |
| 8. Implement continuous delivery (CD). | 1 |
| **Architecture** | **score** |
| 9. Use a loosely coupled architecture | 1 |
| 10. Architect for empowered teams. | 1 |
| **Product and Process** | **score** |
| 11. Gather and implement customer feedback | 1 |
| 12. Make the work visible through value streams | 1 |
| 13. Work in small batches | 1 |
| 14. Foster and enable team experimentation. | 1 |
| **Lean Management and Monitoring** | **score** |
| 15. Have a lightweight change approval process | 1 |
| 16. Monitor across application and infrastructure to inform business decisions | 1 |
| 17. Check system health proactively | 1 |
| 18. Improve processes and manage work with WIP limits | 1 |
| 19. Visualize work to monitor quality and communicate throughout the team | 1 |
| **Cultural** | **score** |
| 20. Support a generative Westrum culture | 1 |
| 21. Encourage and support learning | 1 |
| 22. Support and facilitate collaboration among teams | 1 |
| 23. Provide resources and tools that make work meaningful | 1 |
| 24. Support or embody transformational leadership | 1 |