A recent survey led by Dimension Data on the testing trends in modern development teams shows that agile methods are widely adopted whereas only a few organizations reported the ability to deploy on a hourly-basis, an increasing goal amongst the respondents 
A recent survey led by Dimensional Research on the testing trends in modern development teams shows that agile methods are widely adopted whereas only a few organizations reported the ability to deploy on a hourly-basis, an increasing goal amongst the respondents. 
It’s rather common to see this sentence in the topics’ related sites: 
It’s not continuous delivery if you can’t deploy right now! 
Although, 89% of the organizations reported the adoption of an agile development methodology which compares to the number 82% reported two years ago, the results on the ability to deploy often are quite different. 
As mentioned by Charles Babcock on his article , 
Continuous integration with an ability to deploy hourly, often described as an end goal of adopting an agile development process, was cited by 28% as the destination they were shooting for.