culture 2023 State of DevOps Report: Culture is everything

[Google Cloud Platform]

In the face of rapid digital transformation, a positive organizational culture and user-centric design are the backbone of successful software delivery. And while Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the center of so many contemporary technical conversations, the impact of AI development tools on teams is still in its infancy.

These are just some of the findings from the 2023 Accelerate State of DevOps Report, the annual report from Google Cloud’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team.

For nine years, the State of DevOps survey has assembled data from more than 36,000 professionals worldwide, making it the largest and longest-running research of its kind. This year, we took a deep dive into how high-performing DevOps performers bake these technical, process, and cultural capabilities into their development practices to drive success. Specifically, we explored three key outcomes of a having a DevOps practice and the capabilities that contribute to achieving them:

• Organizational performance - generating value for customers and community
• Team performance - empowering teams to innovate and collaborate
• Employee well-being - reducing burnout and increasing satisfaction/productivity

This year, we were working with a particularly robust data set: the total number of organic respondents increased by 3.6x compared to last year, allowing us to perform a deeper analysis of the relationship between ways of working and outcomes. Thank you to everyone who took the survey this year! ...

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