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 The resulting report, » Don’t Let an Outdated Software Strategy Hold You Back: Learn Best Practices from the Masters of the Modern Software Factory, » categorizes companies as either « masters » of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.
