This directory contains the detailed documentation for each part of the VISTA framework.
- Value - Did the work create meaningful user or business benefit?
- Impact - Did it advance strategic goals and competitive position?
- Safety - Did it avoid hidden downside, including security failures, and hold up in reality?
- Timing - Was capacity directed to the right work at the right time?
- Adaptation - Is the system learning and improving over time?
- Decision Model - The three-layer model for choosing, shaping, and evaluating work
- ODIM - Larry Maccherone's Outcome, Decision, Insight, Measure framework for designing metrics that connect to business results
- Scoring Template - Rubrics and forcing questions for before-coding, during-review, and after-release
- Team Profiles - Diagnostic patterns for recognizing where your team is and what to change
- Dashboards - MVP dashboard designs for executives, delivery leaders, and teams
- Principles overview - The ten principles that shape how VISTA thinks about engineering performance
VISTA complements delivery metrics frameworks like DORA (dora.dev) and SPACE, from "The SPACE of Developer Productivity" by Nicole Forsgren, Margaret-Anne Storey, Chandra Maddila, Thomas Zimmermann, Brian Houck, and Jenna Butler. Those frameworks measure flow - how fast work moves through the system. VISTA measures direction - whether the movement was worth it. See the Decision Model for details.