This year’s research explored three key outcomes and the capabilities that contribute to achieving those outcomes: Organizational performance, team performance and employee well-being. The research also explored means or performance measures that we often talk about like ends-in-themselves: software delivery performance and operational performance.

This report investigates the ways in which organizations can support engineering productivity through initiatives such as supporting information search, more usable deployment toolchains, and reducing technical debt through flexible architecture, code maintainability, and viewable systems.

Many federal agencies have begun adoption of modern, agile approaches to software delivery, with the goal of building higher quality services faster and more cheaply. While there are significant barriers to the adoption of this paradigm in the federal government, this paper offers specific principles and practices that have already achieved success.

This report examines the impact that cloud adoption, use of open source software, organizational practices (including outsourcing), and culture all have on software delivery performance.

This paper seeks to provide high level and tactical findings that are intended to help you advance the progress of your own DevOps Journey. Some key findings in this report are; the beneficial effects of DevOps go beyond financial results, automation is a key differentiator for organizations, and they delve deep into how an application’s architecture can affect an organization’s ability to develop and deliver software.

The fifth annual State of DevOps Report confirms and highlights the fact that achieving higher IT and organizational performance is a team effort spanning development and operations — and it’s an investment that can deliver powerful returns.