How often do your engineering sprint cycles hit expected release timelines?
Less than 50% of the time24%
50 - 74% of the time57%
75 - 90% of the time14%
Over 90%3%
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Less than 50% of the time24%
50 - 74% of the time57%
75 - 90% of the time14%
Over 90%3%
HashiCorp (Terraform, Vault, Packer, etc.)22%
Cloud infra automation (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.)56%
APM (Datadog, AppD, SignalFX, NewRelic, etc.)10%
Others?10%
Support future growth36%
Automate manual processes59%
Demonstrate compliance49%
Reduce risk exposure43%
Improve customer experience16%
Reduce costs13%
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This is a sad state of affairs, in my opinion. Though I think the responses do reflect the current state. I still see most organization doing agile rather than being agile.
I consider a good number for my teams to be 105%. I have had teams that have hit this rate for years on end. Where this isn't happening, the focus should almost always be on management rather than on the teams.