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Onboarding time to first change

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How it's worked out

  • Median and 75th percentile of days to first merged change
  • Same definition of “merged to production” for everyone
NoteSlow first changes usually point to environment setup, access requests or missing documentation rather than the person.

Source: DX and SPACE research on onboarding; Spotify and GitHub onboarding practice

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