# Development efficiency: Understanding DORA's Mean Lead Time for Changes

DevFeed: [Development efficiency: Understanding DORA's Mean Lead Time for Changes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/development-efficiency-understanding-dora-s-mean-lead-time-for-changes-11765.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/dora-metrics-mean-lead-time-for-changes>)

Author: Luis Gonzalez

Published: 2023-05-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [dora metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dora-metrics.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-development.md>)

Tags: [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [dora-metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dora-metrics.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>), [speed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speed.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains DORA's Mean Lead Time for Changes metric, which measures the time from committing code to making it available in production. It describes how DevOps teams can use the metric to improve delivery speed and discusses incident.io's Insights feature for learning from incidents.

## Source excerpt

By using DORA's Mean Lead Time for Changes metric, organizations can increase their speed of iteration