--- title: What’s next for DORA? | daily.dev description: Google has stopped running the annual DORA survey, removing the industry's main independent benchmark for software delivery performance just as AI makes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-next-for-dora--qyxgtwjif twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What’s next for DORA? | daily.dev og:description: Google has stopped running the annual DORA survey, removing the industry's main independent benchmark for software delivery performance just as AI makes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-next-for-dora--qyxgtwjif og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QyxGTwjif.png og:image:alt: What’s next for DORA? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What’s next for DORA? **[LeadDev](https://daily.dev/sources/leaddev)** · 10 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Google has stopped running the annual DORA survey, removing the industry's main independent benchmark for software delivery performance just as AI makes productivity harder to measure. The DORA team's 2025 report on AI-assisted development was its most successful yet, with about 5x the press coverage of prior years, according to former DORA lead Nathen Harvey. Atlassian's State of Teams 2026 report found 89% of executives believe AI sped up work, but only 6% can tie that speed to organization-wide ROI. DORA's survey questions remain free on dora.dev and are licensed under Creative Commons and Apache, so teams can fork and run their own version. Harvey is now joining Laura Tacho's builder research team at AWS. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### is Google still running the DORA developer productivity survey No, Google's DORA team announced in September that it would not run its annual survey, ending a 12-year research effort. The team, based within Google Cloud, signaled it will shift toward more qualitative and observational research instead. Despite ending the survey, the 2025 DORA report on AI-assisted development had been its most successful yet, with about 5 times the press coverage of prior years. _Teams tracking engineering performance metrics can follow coverage of what replaces DORA on daily.dev._ ### can I still access the DORA survey questions to run my own developer experience survey Yes, the DORA survey questions remain published for free on dora.dev, including roughly 150 questions from the 2025 research, and the work is licensed under Creative Commons and Apache so anyone can fork it. Former DORA lead Nathen Harvey recommends picking only the questions relevant to your business, establishing a baseline, then measuring the effect of an intervention. _Engineering leaders building their own metrics program can track this approach on daily.dev._ ### what percentage of executives can tie AI productivity gains to business ROI Only 6% of executives can connect AI-driven increases in work speed to organization-wide return on investment, even though 89% believe AI has sped up work, according to Atlassian's State of Teams 2026 report. This gap illustrates what researcher Annie Vella calls the productivity-experience paradox, where measured productivity rises while developer experience declines. _Leaders weighing AI investment against measurable outcomes can follow this debate on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [DORA’s 2025 research on the impact of AI](https://daily.dev/posts/dora-s-2025-research-on-the-impact-of-ai-rxssp8auu) · Software Engineering Research · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Feeling Fast, Delivering Slow: Why Your AI Adoption Still Hasn't Paid Off](https://daily.dev/posts/feeling-fast-delivering-slow-why-your-ai-adoption-still-hasn-t-paid-off-r8tka8vfj) · Tech Lead Digest · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [DORA metrics are lying to you and AI is making it worse](https://daily.dev/posts/dora-metrics-are-lying-to-you-and-ai-is-making-it-worse-p5ki14fbt) · LeadDev · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#dora-metrics](https://daily.dev/tags/dora-metrics) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-next-for-dora--qyxgtwjif) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What’s next for DORA?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-next-for-dora--qyxgtwjif","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-next-for-dora--qyxgtwjif"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T10:25:24.373Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T10:27:29.787Z","description":"Google has stopped running the annual DORA survey, removing the industry's main independent benchmark for software delivery performance just as AI makes...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/26d81e02237c198cd25a4da0ee6d59a7?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/26d81e02237c198cd25a4da0ee6d59a7?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"LeadDev","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LeadDev","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--u_Q34nzh--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774514111/logos/leaddev?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/leaddev"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-next-for-dora--qyxgtwjif","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"google,productivity,leadership,ai-coding,dora-metrics","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"LeadDev","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/leaddev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What’s next for DORA?"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-next-for-dora--qyxgtwjif#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"is Google still running the DORA developer productivity survey","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"No, Google's DORA team announced in September that it would not run its annual survey, ending a 12-year research effort. 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