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Deployment Performance Survey
This survey takes 4-5 minutes. If you've recently left a role, please answer based on your most recent engagement. You'll get access to the aggregated benchmark report when results are published.
About You & Your Organization
What best describes your current (or most recent) role?
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A
CTO / VP of Engineering / Director of Engineering
B
Engineering Manager / Team Lead
C
Architect / Staff Engineer / Principal Engineer
D
Other
How many engineers are on your team (including you)?
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A
1–5
B
6–20
C
21–50
D
51–100
E
101+
What industry does your company operate in?
What funding stage is your company at?
A
Pre-seed / Seed
B
Series A–B
C
Series C+
D
Public company
E
Private / Bootstrapped
How would you describe your infrastructure?
A
Single cloud provider
B
Multi-cloud
C
Hybrid (cloud + on-prem)
D
On-prem
Deployment & Lead Time
How frequently does your team deploy to production?
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A
Multiple times per day
B
Once per day
C
A few times per week
D
Weekly
E
Biweekly / Monthly
F
Less than monthly
What is your typical lead time from code merge to running in production?
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A
Under 15 minutes
B
15–60 minutes
C
1–24 hours
D
1–7 days
E
More than a week
Reliability
Approximately what percentage of your deployments require a rollback or hotfix within 24 hours?
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A
Less than 1%
B
1–5%
C
5–15%
D
15–30%
E
More than 30%
When a deployment causes a production incident, how long does it typically take to restore service?
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A
Under 15 minutes
B
15–60 minutes
C
1–4 hours
D
4–24 hours
E
More than 24 hours
Measurement
How do you measure these metrics?
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A
DORA metrics tool (e.g. LinearB, Sleuth, Jellyfish)
B
Custom internal tooling
C
Manual process (spreadsheets, queries, etc.)
D
We don't measure these systematically
How often do you measure them?
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A
Weekly
B
Monthly
C
Quarterly
D
Ad-hoc
E
Never
Optimization
How do you optimize these metrics?
A
We don't / best effort
B
We have optimization initiatives
C
We have a systematic program
D
Other (free text)
How much do you think your company could save by optimizing delivery?
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A
A small amount (less than 5% of current effort/cost)
B
We can have decent savings with the right effort (~10%)
C
There's huge room for improvement (more than 20%)
Tooling
Would you use a tool to optimize your delivery process systematically?
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A
Yes
B
No
How comfortable are you in self-servicing the tool?
A
Very. Give me docs and I'll set it up myself
B
Comfortable if there's a guided setup or onboarding
C
I'd need my platform/DevOps team to handle it
D
We'd need vendor support
In conclusion
What is the single most frustrating thing about your deployment process today?
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