With quality software proving essential for positive customer experiences and digital transformations, organizations must overhaul their development practices.
While modern approaches to software development and delivery are emerging as make-or-break factors for achieving a competitive edge, few organizations excel in practicing continuous delivery, deploying DevOps-enabled automation or adopting other digital transformation-worthy tools and techniques, according to a recent survey from CA Technologies. The resulting report, ” Don’t Let an Outdated Software Strategy Hold You Back: Learn Best Practices from the Masters of the Modern Software Factory,” categorizes companies as either “masters” of software development and delivery or “mainstream,” with masters outperforming in areas such as agility, insights, automation and security. Master organizations are better at producing apps with improved quality and consistency, for example. They also do a superior job of prioritizing software development according to business goals, while encouraging a more collaborative culture. Given this, it may not come as a surprise that master organizations have seen profit growth of 17 percent over the last year, compared to 10 percent at mainstream businesses. Organizations must “adopt modern software development practices, such as embracing agile, increasing automation wherever possible, using machine learning and analytics to generate insights, and integrating security into the development process to do a better job of driving growth,” said Otto Berkes, executive vice president and chief technology officer of CA Technologies. “If you don’t have a modern approach to software… you will be left behind in a world where the masters are the winners.” More than 1,275 global senior business and IT executives took part in the research, which was conducted by Freeform Dynamics.
