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LATEST INTELLIGENCE proactive/prescriptive insights, along with complementary levels of more advanced automation, couldn’t be more relevant to effective IT transformation in supporting full application lifecycle benefits and a more enlightened approach to DevOps going forward. Some of the highlights from the research were: Organization • IT organizations that involved more organizational groups and stakeholder roles in their DevOps initiatives were consistently more successful and more progressive. • Success in performance, relevance, and value strongly affiliates with the move to DevOps decentralization. • While strong CIO-level involvement was a distinct plus, minimizing business involvement – particularly CEO involvement – also aligned strongly with success. • On a quantitative scale between seamless and confrontational, DevOps interactions were skewed toward the positive, with 46% leaning toward seamless and only 15% leaning toward confrontational. • The correlation between DevOps and digital transformation is significant, with only 7% showing no plans for digital transformation, while of those with digital transformation underway, only 9% have no plans to integrate digital transformation into their DevOps initiatives. Agile methods and productivity • Responses indicated that on average, slightly more than half of custom enterprise applications are using agile methods in 2019. • When asked about whether their production deployments increased or decreased, responses strongly indicated an increase (81%), with only 15% claiming no increase or decrease, and only 4% showing a decrease. • Download whitepapers free from www.intelligentcio.com/me/whitepapers/ www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 21