Puppet and DORA have published the 2017 State of DevOps Report. This analyses their most recent annual survey of DevOps practice and contrasts it with previous findings.
(See: https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/state-of-devops-report)
It's pretty safe to say now that, with over 25% of respondents claiming to practice DevOps within their organisations, DevOps has become mainstream and is firmly embedding itself in standard practice.
The most striking thing about the current survey is that it examines the link between Transformational Leadership and successful adoption and goes on to assert that there is a correlation between successful adoption and IT Performance, as measured by speed of software deployment and stability of operations. The trends suggest that whilst laggards are starting to catch up in terms of deployment speed, this has been at the cost of worsening stability, expressed in terms of rate of deployment failures and times to recover.
More exciting though is the claims of correlation between IT Performance and Business Performance, using a range of measures of success such as Customer Satisfaction, Achieving Business Goals and Operational Efficiency.
The report also goes on to analyses various of the practices associated with DevOps, such as Continuous Delivery and Automation to conclude that it does have a statistically demonstrable impact on the success of Lean Development (otherwise known as Agile).
Overall, you can only conclude that if an enterprise is not practising DevOps yet, it should. Its very survival in the world of Digital As Normal will depend upon it. The business case for automation and software as infrastructure has never been stronger and the performance gap between those who adopt and those who don't is huge.
