To read the latest software industry research from Accelerate Strategies Group, download the report . To hear ASG discuss the results, listen to episode 77 of DevOps Radio _ here_ _._Despite years of embracing DevOps, organizations are nowhere near extracting maximum value and efficiency from their software delivery pipelines. That’s one of the key takeaways from a just-released survey of software organizations by Accelerated Strategies Group, an analyst company whose mission is to democratize access to industry expert knowledge.
The survey’s author, Principal Analyst Sanjeev Sharma from Accelerated Strategies, and Mitch Ashley, the company’s CEO, shared this frank assessment during a wide-ranging discussion with DevOps Radio about the current state of software delivery management in the enterprise. “Organizations are still working in silos 10 years after the DevOps movement started,” Sharma says. “And they’re still struggling with breaking down those silos.”
The fragmented development environment hurts productivity by blocking the flow of information from the people who have it to the people who need it. “Cross-silo information flow is still really bad,” Sharma says. “You have to jump through hoops to get the information you need to do your next task.”
CEO Ashley agrees. “Our mantra is ‘knowledge wants to be free,’” he says. By identifying and clearing bottlenecks in the flow of information across function, companies can better understand the business value of their software and deliver the “right software at the right time at the right place.”
Sharma says the point of effective software delivery management isn’t about deploying software faster or more frequently, but producing successful business outcomes - and that requires connecting the software development process with meaningful business value. “It’s totally irrelevant how fast you’re going if you’re going in the wrong direction,” he says. “That just results in software nobody uses, and it’ll cost you more to get back on track.”
Ashely and Sharma say companies will need to improve software delivery management to deal with the profound transformations happening in today’s economy, from the shift to remote working and commerce, to increasing cloud adoption, to the impact of emerging technologies like AI and machine learning. “When you’re talking about how you’re going to engage a customer and how you’re going to change your business model, those experiments, if not done properly, can result in investing a lot of money down the wrong path,” says Sharma.
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