Global Study Reveals Businesses Miss Out on Higher Revenue and Profit Growth Due to Lack of Broad Adoption of Agile and DevOps
February 27 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
CA Technologies Sponsored Study Shows Most
Companies Plagued by Similar Challenges in Culture, Skills Gaps and
Leadership Alignment
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced results of a global
study which revealed that while most organizations are committed to
the full adoption of both agile and DevOps, many are struggling
with key challenges and missing out on the extensive benefits these
practices can have on their bottom line.
The study, “How Agile and DevOps Enable Digital Readiness and
Transformation” found that while 75 percent of respondents
recognize that agile and DevOps approaches drive significant
business success when implemented together, only a relatively small
proportion consider the consistency, depth and breadth of usage of
these practices to be high.
The study showcases characteristics of ‘Agility Masters’ (the
top 18 percent), which are organizations that are farthest along in
the full adoption and doing most or nearly all of the right things
to make agile and DevOps an essential part of how they function day
by day. These ‘Agility Masters’ are also more likely to use agile
practices across other company functions, so it is unlikely a
coincidence that these organizations are seeing a 60 percent higher
rate of revenue and profit growth, and are 2.4 times more likely
than their mainstream counterparts to be growing their businesses
at a rate of over 20 percent.
“The pressure is on to make all parts of an organization as
flexible as possible when responding to changing customer demands,
user expectations, regulatory changes and – most important of all –
market opportunities,” said Ayman Sayed, president and chief
product officer, CA Technologies. “Business leaders need to be
aggressive and intentional about driving adoption of agile and
DevOps within their organizations. The success of their business
depends on it.”
It’s Not All About Technology and Process: The People
Perspective
The study also found that organizations are plagued by similar
challenges: culture, skills, program investment and leadership
alignment. The research highlights a widespread recognition that
implementing agile and DevOps practices across the software
lifecycle is not just a matter of new skills and working patterns.
For some, it also requires a significant shift in mindset and
behavior and making those changes is very much a people issue –
even at the executive level. Top priorities to improve
effectiveness identified by respondents include:
- Improve the culture of the organization
so it encourages and rewards collaboration (84 percent)
- More support and commitment from
management at all levels (82 percent)
- Training for IT teams on how to
collaborate and incorporate best practices into their day-to-day
jobs (78 percent), and additional resources to help implement agile
and DevOps practices (75 percent)
- Relieve time pressures so teams can
implement effective agile and DevOps practices (74 percent)
Respondents also found it very difficult or challenging to find
professionals that were familiar with agile methods (68 percent),
had experience with DevOps (77 percent) and/or had collaborative
cross-team working experience (67 percent). This clearly indicates
a skills gap for the majority of organizations, which requires
resources, especially training, to be made available.
“Raising the capability of the engineering team through a
well-crafted careers development program will allow us to continue
to recruit and retain high caliber individuals,” said a Chief
Architect/CTO of a retail business interviewed for the study.
Connecting Execution to Business Outcomes
The connection between agile, DevOps and business outcomes
centers around the continuous feedback loop running through live
customer experiences to requirements engineering – showing how well
software delivery is performing and supporting the business itself.
To further reap the benefits of agile and DevOps, organizations
must also leverage the responsiveness and flexibility offered by
cloud, containers and other new code design and delivery
architectures, with a smooth shift-left of all activities – such as
continuous testing – and finer granularity of iteration across the
whole of the software delivery and ops cycle.
Resources
- Report: How Agile and DevOps enable
digital readiness and transformation
- Infographic
- SlideShare: Break Away with Agile and
DevOps
Survey Methodology
The global online survey of 1,279 senior IT and business
executives was sponsored by CA Technologies and conducted by
industry analyst firm Freeform Dynamics. It was augmented by
in-depth telephone interviews with key industry executives. For
full survey methodology details, please see the report, "How Agile
and DevOps enable digital readiness and transformation."
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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