Software EngineeringAI & Agent WorkflowsOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
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 "…