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.