I always love the start of a new year. There’s so much promise and excitement to look forward to. I, for one, am very interested in how the application development landscape will change with Agile and DevOps being such big influencers. One thing hasn’t changed though – the #1 application development priority for 2012 is still delivering applications faster to the business.
At the Gartner AADI Summit in December 2011, we surveyed IT executives about their top application development and delivery priorities for the coming year and discovered some notable results. 68% of respondents confirmed that faster delivery of applications is the top priority. Expanding the use of Agile and reducing application development costs were the second and third highest priorities, coming in at 52 percent and 49 percent respectively.
We found that delivering applications faster is also growing in importance, up almost ten percent from the 2010 survey. Interestingly enough, performance has outpaced cost as a priority, according to the survey, as the reduction of application development costs dropped in importance in this year’s survey—replaced as the number two priority with Agile use.
While most software delivery teams today have the right tools, roles, and functions in place, we see the biggest challenge in finding a way for these elements to effectively work together from initial request to release into production, so the entire IT organization can be as efficient and cost effective as possible. By putting effective processes in place, even the largest global enterprises can better orchestrate, measure, predict, and accelerate the overall software delivery process.
See complete results from the survey in the graph below.
