Comment by smallerfish

DORA seems ok as a big company framework, where different teams of similar sizes can be roughly compared using the scores, and the CIO or CFO can have some satisfaction about being able to avoid spending money on non-producers, without engineers feeling like they're being individually spied upon. Without this accountability, engineering managers may let non-performers coast for a variety of reasons.

For small companies, engineering managers & direngs should be aware enough through working with the team members individually & through PR review who is performing and who isn't, and not need to deploy metrics.