#20 | Sunday reads for EMs

My favourite reads of the week to make your Sunday a little more inspiring.

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What are the 2025 benchmarks for the key DORA metrics?

tl;dr: Only 16% of teams deploy on-demand while 24% deploy less than monthly. 56% of teams need days to recover a failed deployment, creating a vicious cycle where each deployment discourages future deployments. If your team sits in the lower half of any DORA metric, AI may accelerate problems faster than it delivers value since these tools compound existing inefficiencies.