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.
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 engineering KPI lists focus only on output. Here's a curated set that includes discovery, developer experience, and team health—because shipping fast means nothing if you're shipping the wrong things.