Your software delivery performance
You're performing better than % of 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps survey respondents.
Take the Quick Check from other research years: 2023 2022 2021 2019What's holding you back?
In our research, DORA has identified several key capabilities which drive higher software delivery and organizational performance. Improving these technical, process, and cultural capabilities can help your team deliver more value to your customers and organization. It's important to focus your efforts on the specific thing that is currently holding you back. While every team will take a different journey, we have identified three capabilities that are often beneficial to improve: Continuous Integration, Loosely Coupled Teams, and Generative Organizational Culture.
Capability 1 of 3: Continuous Integration
Continuous integration (CI) is the first step towards continuous delivery. This is a development practice where code is regularly checked in, and each check-in triggers a set of quick tests to discover serious regressions, which developers fix immediately. The CI process creates canonical builds and packages that are ultimately deployed and released. Learn more
| For the primary application or service you work on: | Strongly disagree | Disagree | Neither agree nor disagree | Agree | Strongly agree |
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| Code commits result in an automated build of the software. | |||||
| Code commits result in a series of automated tests being run. | |||||
| Automated builds and tests are executed successfully every day. | |||||
| Current builds are available to testers for exploratory testing. | |||||
| Developers get feedback from the acceptance and performance tests every day. |
Capability 2 of 3: Loosely Coupled Teams
An organizational structure that allows teams to test and deploy their applications on demand, without requiring orchestration with other services. Team structure and technical architecture are highly interrelated: having a loosely coupled architecture allows your teams to work independently without relying on other teams for support and services, which in turn enables them to work quickly and deliver value to the organization. Learn more
| For the primary application or service you work on: | Strongly disagree | Disagree | Neither agree nor disagree | Agree | Strongly agree |
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| On my team, we can make large-scale changes to the design of our system without creating significant work for other teams. | |||||
| To complete my own work, I don't need to communicate and coordinate with people outside my team. | |||||
| My team can deploy and release our product or service on demand, independently of other services it depends upon. | |||||
| We can do most of our testing on demand, without requiring an integrated test environment. | |||||
| On my team, we can make large-scale changes to the design of our system without depending on other teams to make changes in their systems. | |||||
| On my team, we perform deployments during normal business hours with negligible downtime. |
Capability 3 of 3: Generative Organizational Culture
Westrum's measure of organizational culture is predictive of IT performance, organizational performance, and decreasing burnout. Hallmarks of this measure include good information flow, high cooperation and trust, bridging between teams, and conscious inquiry. Learn more
| For the primary application or service you work on: | Strongly disagree | Disagree | Neither agree nor disagree | Agree | Strongly agree |
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| Information is actively sought. | |||||
| Messengers are not punished when they deliver news of failures or other bad news. | |||||
| Responsibilities are shared. | |||||
| Cross-functional collaboration is encouraged and rewarded. | |||||
| Failures are treated primarily as opportunities to improve the system. | |||||
| New ideas are welcomed. |
Capabilities analysis
Based on your responses, here's how your team is performing:
Continuous IntegrationLearn more about Continuous Integration |
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Loosely Coupled TeamsLearn more about Loosely Coupled Teams |
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Generative Organizational CultureLearn more about Generative Organizational Culture |
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These are only three of the capabilities that our research has shown to predict software delivery and operations performance. Here are some resources to help you plan the next step of your DevOps journey:
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Explore DORA's Capabilities Catalog
Learn about all of the technical, process, and cultural capabilities that our research has shown to be predictive of software delivery and operations performance.
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Read the latest Accelerate State of DevOps Report
How your performance compares
Based on your quick check answers, see how you compare to the 2022 Accelerate State of DevOps respondents overall, and to people within the same industry as you.
