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2015 State of Devops Report [pdf]

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Meh reads more like marketing fluff than anything. Its just an incoherent mess of academic articles and industry white papers(some more than a year old) and a sprinkle of survey monkey. TL;DR Devops! yeah make tommorow's profits more Devopsy today with puppet. Continuous Diversity, lead time synergies, and SUCH!

Yeah, it is just silly. At some point one has to ask, like, what is the difference between "that" and the email that tries to sell you unbeatable stock market investing scheme, penis enlargement pills, or the cure for baldness.

"High-performing IT organizations deploy 30x more frequently with 200x shorter lead times; they have 60x fewer failures and recover 168x faster. "

200x shorter... 168x faster... wow. Where do I sign?

I was especially curious to see the male-to-female ratio in the report. My personal belief is that this is a big problem.

Why is this a problem in your opinion?

Not his opinion but one could cite the report itself:

Diversity matters. Research shows that teams with more women members have higher collective intelligence and achieve better business outcomes. Our survey shows that few teams are truly diverse with regard to gender. We recommend that teams wanting to achieve high performance do their best to recruit and retain more women, and improve diversity in other areas, too.

Read down. They cite several studies. To be honest, I was little weirded out by the implication that diversity and equitable gender distribution are synonymous. In fact there is only one-half sentence mentioning non-gender diversity - "and improve diversity in other areas, too."

>> Research shows that teams with more women members have higher collective intelligence and achieve better business outcomes.

The research used is this paper https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/ind...

which claims having more women on the board has achieved better business outcomes.

Which is fine until you start digging and find out that they passed legislation in Europe forcing companies to be more diverse. That companies in Europe had the number of women on boards double in less than two years http://imgur.com/a/4sE2y despite a recession and stagnating economy.

Then they justify the economic "recovery" since the 2008 crash to that decision.

And now hiring more women is associated to economic growth.

You should hire and compensate people based on the value they generate. Instead companies are becoming political parties trying to reach diversity quotas to satisfy the local demographics and government policy du jour.

This has been going on for decades but there is nothing like government intervention to accelerate a disaster.

I (along with many others, I would assume) would be interested in seeing data on what the usage trends are for different devops tools.

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