How to use this

• 1Start at the four bento cards. All four DORA metrics in their percentile band is your one-glance "are we elite?" answer for steering committees and board updates — if any band drops below High, that card is your meeting agenda.
• 2Read the signature chart — the cycle-time bar — left to right. Each segment is a stage in the lead-time pipeline; the segment with the gold outline is the bottleneck. It almost always pays to fix the widest stage before adding headcount anywhere.
• 3Watch Review wait first. For most healthy orgs, coding is fast and review queueing is the silent tax. The Bottleneck Coach quantifies it and proposes a concrete PR-splitting move with an estimated hours-saved.
• 4Let the AI do the narrative. Percentile-band auto-labeling, PR risk scoring, and the Squad health digest turn raw metrics into "what changed and why" — so reviews start from a hypothesis, not a spreadsheet.
• 5Use the leaderboard for coaching, not ranking. A slower squad usually owns a gnarlier domain; compare each squad to its own 90-day trend before to the org median.
• 6For your own org: which single stage, if cut in half, would move lead time the most? If you can't answer in 10 seconds, you're flying without this view.

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