Many organizations have shifted to agile planning and supply methodologies to enhance consistency, reliability, and buyer satisfaction in constructing and enhancing purposes. They embrace devops cultures, ideas, and automations to extend deployment frequencies, shorten lead time to adjustments, shorten imply time to resolve incidents, and enhance different key efficiency indicators (KPIs).
You may be questioning how your group and division stacks up in opposition to different similar-minded organizations in adopting agile and devops. Are you adopting finest practices, dealing with related struggles, and concentrating on achievable outcomes?
Two lately printed studies have some solutions. The 15th State of Agile Report by Digital.ai and Puppet’s 2021 State of DevOps Report each present benchmarks on the general maturity of those practices. Both studies embrace many particulars and analyst commentary. Here are my 5 key takeaways from these two studies.
Agile and devops will evolve to help extra hybrid work
Agile practices proceed to maneuver ahead because the Agile Manifesto, whereas devops platforms and capabilities are making it simpler for extra expertise groups to automate and operationalize the cloud. The swap to distant work in 2020 and the present curiosity in hybrid work fashions will create new alternatives and challenges for organizations.
In the agile report, solely 16% of respondents claimed they have been totally distant earlier than the pandemic. As pandemic restrictions raise, 56% favor a hybrid method, and one other 25% will keep totally distant. Only 3% plan to report again to the workplace full time.
Innovation and collaboration are sometimes simpler with colocated groups, so many leaders will search sensible adjustments and instruments that help hybrid methods of working. Hybrid work would require shifts in how agile groups arrange day by day standups, automate extra workflows between agile and devops instruments, and formalize communication and collaboration practices.
Achieving agile or devops maturity isn’t simple
The devops report stated that 10% of organizations certified as having extremely advanced devops practices again in 2010. In the 2021 report, that quantity grew to solely 18% of respondents. But these organizations can deploy on demand, want lower than an hour lead time for adjustments, have lower than one hour imply time to restoration from incidents, and have change failure charges below 5%.
That’s actually a really excessive bar for many organizations, however 78% of mid-maturity organizations nonetheless…
