DORA metrics for the CFO: making engineering velocity legible

The most useful conversation I've had in a DevOps engagement wasn't with an SRE or a platform engineer. It was with a CFO. Her engineering team had been asking for budget to invest in CI/CD pipeline upgrades, better observability tooling, and a dedicated platform engineer. The request had been deprioritised twice. "We don't see the ROI," she said. I pulled up four numbers. By the end of the call, the project was funded. Those four numbers were DORA metrics — and every engineering leader who has