Newport LLC Perspective on Emerging Growth Companies and Software Development Productivity
Summary
Further, research by DORA shows only 20% of all companies have reached the highest level of DevOps maturity, allowing them to deliver software quickly and reliably. This DevOps team typically end up maintaining existing tools and knit them together via custom code, with little or no time available for process improvements due to the maintenance burden. Simplifying this step with infrastructure as code and built-in cloud compatibility so that developers can easily deploy to their desired target brings agility to the business. For example, integrating security scans to run automatically early in the process is an excellent alternative to having them at the end, where developers may just skip them to save time. This means the DevOps team does not have to worry about knitting together point solutions or changing deployment targets; they can focus on higher order value delivery.