Throughout the past decade, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) researchers have continued to track the growth of Agile practices, the rise of cross-functional DevOps collaborations, and the impact of Continuous Delivery on business and IT. In most modern organizations, these three areas are inextricably intertwined.
This paper presents EMA’s latest findings on these topics from a research survey conducted during the spring of 2017. The intent of the survey was to highlight the current state of software delivery and related tooling in today’s companies. This paper summarizes the results, tracing the DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices and tools most relevant to managing the delivery of business services in 2017.
