platform-fitness-functions

Instrument platform roadmaps with executable architectural fitness functions, DORA metrics, and GQM-derived KPIs.

Updated Jul 16, 2026
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Skill: platform-fitness-functions
Source: https://github.com/Cloud-Byte-Consulting/plugins/tree/main/adp-enablement/skills/platform-fitness-functions
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/Cloud-Byte-Consulting/plugins --skill platform-fitness-functions-cloud-byte-consulting

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Platform roadmaps often claim progress that cannot be verified, and teams collect metrics nobody acts on. This Skill turns every roadmap milestone into an executable fitness function with staged warning-to-error thresholds, so architectural governance is enforced by CI tests rather than slideware. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Fitness Function Authoring: Classify checks on six axes (scope, cadence, result, invocation, origin, coverage) and author each as context, target metric, and executable test wired into pipeline stages. - DORA Four Keys from Raw Events: Derive deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time from commit, deployment, and incident event streams with a minimal viable dashboard. - GQM Workshops and Maturity Indexes: Run Goal-Question-Metric workshops for division-specific KPIs and build transparent, criteria-based maturity indexes with published weights and scoring instructions. - Use Case: A platform team inherits a maturity gap register and needs to prove roadmap progress. Use this Skill to map each milestone to a set of fitness functions promoted from warning to error, stand up a DORA dashboard, and produce an FF registry with owners and thresholds. ## Quick Start Use the platform-fitness-functions skill to instrument our platform roadmap with DORA metrics and executable fitness functions for each milestone.

Frequently Asked Questions about platform-fitness-functions

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I measure DORA metrics without buying a metrics product?

Derive the four DORA keys from three raw event streams: commits, deployments, and incidents. Deployment frequency counts deploys per period, lead time is deploy timestamp minus commit timestamp, change failure rate is failed deployments over total, and recovery time is resolved minus detected timestamps.

What is an architectural fitness function and how do I write one?

A fitness function is an executable test for an architectural characteristic, run continually in CI. Author each one as context (a short ADR), a target metric with threshold, and an automated test such as an ArchUnit structure check, OPA/Kyverno policy, contract suite, or load-test stage.

How do I introduce a new policy gate without blocking all teams?

Set the new fitness function at a lenient threshold as a warning, announce the tightening schedule, then promote it stepwise to error. This gives teams time to pay down debt while the check stays in place permanently to prevent regression.

When should I use GQM instead of standard DORA metrics?

Use Goal-Question-Metric workshops for questions standard frameworks do not cover, such as whether researchers are actually faster. Build a tree from goal to questions to metrics to data, prune weak signals, and leave with a collection plan and owners.

What are common platform metrics anti-patterns to avoid?

Avoid measurement theater (dashboards nobody acts on), vanity metrics (activity counts presented as outcomes), local optimization (individual output up while org lead time stays flat), and weaponizing metrics for individual performance reviews, which causes gaming.