How long does it take for a committed change to reach production?

AMore than six monthsBBetween one month and six monthsCBetween one week and one monthDBetween one day and one weekELess than one dayFLess than one hourGI don't know or NA

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What is your lead time for changes (i.e., how long does it take to go from code committed to code successfully running in production)?

Delivery diagnostic

Jonathan Duberville — independent Staff Engineer and software architect, Lille and Paris.

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Independent tool published by JDUCRAFT. DORA is a trademark of Google LLC, used here to refer to Google Cloud’s DORA research program; JDUCRAFT is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Google.

Survey questions: DORA (Google LLC), ‘Team profiles survey questions’, ‘DORA Research: 2025 – Survey Questions’ and ‘AI Capabilities Model – Survey Questions’, dora.dev, licensed CC BY 4.0 (retrieved 8 November 2026) — translated into French and, for one question, adapted by JDUCRAFT. Benchmark figures: DORA report ‘State of AI-assisted Software Development’ (v. 2025.2), cited as facts with figure and page numbers; this report is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and is not reproduced here. The questions marked JDUCRAFT, the scoring rules, the probable constraint, the thresholds and the advice are JDUCRAFT content, labelled as such, and not DORA data.

Aligned with the DORA 2025 report (v. 2025.2), the latest published: on 3 September 2026, DORA announced that it would not run an annual survey this year nor publish a 2026 ‘State of AI-assisted Software Development’ report. Read the announcement

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