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Continuous Delivery Adoption Barriers

For about a month, DevOpsGroup has been running a survey to understand what barriers exist for Continuous Delivery adoption. 41% of respondents said that organizational culture was seen as the primary barrier to Continuous Delivery adoption.

Continuous Delivery adoption is usually impossible unless management is bought in and at least some of the engineers are willing to change the way they work.

Infrastructure-as-Code, as promoted by OpsCode and Delivery Pipeline Management tools such as ThoughtWorks Go, are being combined with an ever-growing set of Cloud-enabled services and platforms to make Continuous Delivery adoption easier from a technical viewpoint.

Given, respondents saw this reason as the least important factor is preventing Continuous Delivery adoption — could mean that organizations are aware of the benefits of getting to market faster.