Editing Software Engineering (Winter 2026) (section)

=== February 12 (Thursday) -- Evidence Part 2: Evaluating Evidence, DevOps and Dora ===

'''Before Class'''
* Read [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1878637/files/folder/Week%206?preview=145320994 Reading Note 11]
* Watch [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1878637/files/folder/Week%206?preview=145320942 my mini-lecture on Evidence, DevOps, and DORA]
* Do readings:
** Read only page 1 - 7 and 27 - 31 [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1878637/files/folder/Week%206?preview=145321113 of this article from Flournoy, Lee, Wu, and Hicks.]
** Read this [https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1878637/files/folder/Week%206?preview=145321110 introduction to Ch 1 and all of Ch 2] of '''Making Software''', edited by Oram and Wilson.
** Read the [https://dora.dev/guides/dora-metrics-four-keys/ Four Key] DORA Metrics

'''Class Goals:'''
* Discuss Reading Note 11
* Standup
* Hands-on / triage issues with Task 5

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'''Optional Reading:'''
* The entire Flournoy et al. article is great; I'd be happy to talk more about it with anyone interested
* This is a helpful [https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering/sre-vs-devops-vs-platform-engineering/ article on the differences] between DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Platform Engineering.
* I've assigned excerpts from '''Making Software''', but the Library subscribes to an e-book version of the whole work. You can [https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/making-software/9780596808310/ read it via the O'Reilly online subscription]
* I recently published an article on [FIX measuring software risk] in the journal '''Empirical Software Engineering'''.
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