DORA-based ROI calculator

What is slow, unreliable delivery costing you?

Move the sliders to your reality. See the annual value of closing the gap to high performance, in reclaimed engineering time, reduced failure cost, and faster delivery. Then email yourself the one-page summary.

Your team today

Engineers in scope: 20

Cost per engineer in euro (per year)

Fully loaded: salary plus employer taxes, benefits and overhead. Default reflects a mid-level Dutch engineer.

How often do you deploy to production? (Deployment frequency)

How long does it take for code to go from commit to production? (Lead time)

What share of your changes fail or need a hotfix? (CFR) 10%

Roughly what share of your production deployments fail or need a rollback, hotfix or patch. A rough estimate is fine - if unsure, think about how often a release needs an unplanned follow-up fix.

How long to restore service after a failed change? (Time to restore)

Advanced assumptions (optional)

Cost of downtime per hour

Revenue and productivity at risk during an outage. Left conservative on purpose; enterprise figures are far higher. Set to 0 to exclude downtime and count remediation labour only.

Expected engagement budget (optional)

Enter a figure to see a return on investment and payback period.

Annual value unlocked

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Conservative – Typical, per year

–Engineering hours reclaimed / year

–Freed capacity

Where the value comes from

Reclaimed engineering time–
Reduced failure and incident cost–
Faster delivery (opportunity, estimate)–

Your DORA profile: today to target

	Today → Target
Deployment frequency	–
Lead time for changes	–
Change failure rate	–
Time to restore service	–

Estimates based on DORA (2024) plus 2024-2026 industry research (Stripe, PagerDuty, Forrester, Nucleus) and typical Expeditious Software engagements. Not a guarantee of results. Each DORA metric is valued on its own and targets a realistic one-band improvement (up to Elite). We show a range from conservative to typical rather than a single number, because in practice not all of the possible value is captured.

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What is slow, unreliable delivery costing you?

Your team today

Where the value comes from

Your DORA profile: today to target

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