A platform team has a Deployment Frequency of multiple deployments per day but also a Change Failure Rate of 30%. What does this combination indicate and what should the team investigate first?

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B. Rapid deployments are shipping inadequately validated changes; the team should investigate automated test coverage quality and staging environment parity with production. DORA research demonstrates that elite performers achieve both high Deployment Frequency and low Change Failure Rate simultaneously. A high failure rate alongside high frequency indicates quality problems such as insufficient automated tests, staging environments that do not represent production behavior, or missing deployment validation gates. Reducing frequency would only mask the quality problem rather than address its root cause.

A platform team has a Deployment Frequency of multiple deployments per day but also a Change Failure Rate of 30%. What does this combination indicate and what should the team investigate first?

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