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Architecture & practice·Delivery, flow and technical debt

one deploy in six needed a fix or a rollback, and nobody had counted until someone asked.

Change failure rate

The proportion of deployments causing a degradation that requires remediation. It is the stability half of the DORA pair, and it exists to catch the obvious objection to shipping frequently. A low rate combined with low frequency usually means the team is not shipping rather than that it is careful, which is why the four numbers are only meaningful together.

Commonly confused with