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Developer Velocity: Key lessons from digital leaders on software excellence

Businesses and organizations of all sizes are adopting solutions to enable remote work and are creating brand-new, cloud-based applications with an increasing focus on staying secure. Today, there is an even greater urgency for companies to invest in software development to adapt and thrive in 2021 and beyond.

While our earlier research highlighted the importance of Developer Velocity, post COVID-19, there is even more urgency for companies to invest in software development in the right way to adapt and thrive today and in the future. In late 2020, we conducted new industry-focused research to understand the journey that leading companies in banking and retail take to become world class organizations.

About 70 percent of their customer-facing e-commerce stack is in the public cloud, compared to zero percent just three years ago.