DORA and SPACE were designed for teams where a person typed every line. Three of SPACE's five dimensions survive that assumption breaking. One of them stops being weak and starts being actively misleading.
Hard metrics tell you what happened. Qualitative data tells you why. You need both—here's why most teams get this wrong.
65% of engineers experienced burnout last year. Your DORA metrics look great. These two facts aren't contradictory—they reveal a dangerous blind spot in how we measure engineering performance.
Most DX platforms only measure delivery. Here's why that's a problem—and how measuring both Discovery and Delivery gives you the complete picture.