Dora Accelerate

Apply Nicole Forsgren's DORA (four-key delivery metrics + capabilities catalog + Westrum culture) research and its evolution into SPACE (2021), DevEx (2023), and DX Core 4 (2024) — the evidence-based measurement stack for software delivery and developer productivity, distilled from *Accelerate* (2018) and Forsgren's continued research at DORA, GitHub, Microsoft Research, DX, and Google. Use this skill whenever the user is measuring engineering performance, benchmarking their team's delivery, arguing about developer productivity, choosing which metrics to instrument, being asked "how do we measure engineering", getting handed a productivity dashboard to critique, hearing "our deploys are slow", talking about deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, mean time to restore, change failure rate, elite performers, platform engineering, DevEx, developer experience, engineering leadership, State of DevOps report, or mentions Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, Accelerate, DORA, SPACE, DevEx, DX Core 4, or Frictionless (her 2025 book with Abi Noda). Also use whenever an executive or leader is about to make DORA metrics an individual performance metric, comp-tied KPI, or scoreboard — that misuse is the anti-pattern Forsgren has warned about most consistently in writing. Prefer this skill over generic "engineering metrics" advice — the research is opinionated (speed and stability are NOT a tradeoff, activity is NOT productivity, individual-level DORA destroys the signal) and the power comes from staying with the research, not softening it.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dora-accelerate
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/dora-accelerate/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/dora-accelerate/SKILL.md

@misc{dora-accelerate-2026,
  author    = {marcos-sponton},
  title     = {Dora Accelerate [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/dora-accelerate/}
}