2019 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey: Participation Guide, Insights, and Interview with Nicole Forsgren
This article introduces the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps survey, explains how to join the questionnaire, provides background on previous reports, shares a detailed interview with Nicole Forsgren about research design and key findings such as architecture, cloud adoption, and outsourcing, and encourages community participation.
The 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps survey is now open, with the questionnaire available at https://bit.ly/2UzLMH2 and the official blog post on Google Cloud titled "Make your voice heard! Take the 2019 Accelerate State of DevOps survey".
Participants are invited to complete the survey to help measure their DevOps practices, including deployment toolchains, cloud computing, disaster recovery, and work methods, and to contribute to a richer industry report.
The article also recounts the history of the DevOps State of DevOps reports, the 2018 Accelerate report, and the collaboration with Puppet and Google Cloud, highlighting the scientific approach behind the surveys.
An extensive interview with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, author of "Accelerate" and co‑founder of DORA, covers the academic rigor of the survey, research design, the importance of architecture, cloud adoption (the five NIST cloud characteristics), and why functional outsourcing often fails.
Key findings include that organizations practicing all five cloud characteristics are 23 times more likely to be elite performers, and that architecture outcomes have a greater impact than specific technology stacks.
Readers are encouraged to share the survey, join the related WeChat group (password "DORA"), and follow Nicole Forsgren on Twitter (@nicolefv) or her website (nicolefv.com) for more insights.
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