Goals for all best practices
Set org-wide goals for every best-practice, platform migration, and audit need.
Drive progress towards a culture of ownership & reliability
Initiatives let you set goals and deadlines in a Scorecard, making service quality a moving target for the team.
Initiatives Examples
Operational Maturity
Drive SLO adoption across the organization through automatically assigned action items. Improve operational practices by targeting the teams that need it the most.
Operational Readiness
Make tactical progress on operational readiness, so that your team is ready to handle incidents when they occur.
Development Maturity
Nudge your engineering team in the right direction with initiatives that drive home development best practices, like code coverage, CI, and automation.
DORA Metrics
Improve your team’s change failure rate. It represents the percent of changes or releases that result in downtime, degraded service, or rollbacks.
If you aren’t familiar with DORA metrics, take a few minutes to read this comprehensive guide to understanding DORA metrics.
If you aren’t familiar with DORA metrics, take a few minutes to read this comprehensive guide to understanding DORA metrics.
Migrations
Move the entire organization in the right direction during platform migrations, security audits, and high-risk stack transitions.
Tied to existing processes
Initiatives are tied to existing Scorecards, letting you drive incremental org-wide progress on existing processes, rather than ad-hoc ones.
Personalized action items
Cortex automatically assigns action items to engineers based on outstanding tasks for an org-wide initiative.
Nudges and notifications
Use service ownership to notify and nudge engineers about progress and outstanding action items.
