The 2023 State of Software Delivery Report

How do you measure an elite software team? We analyzed nearly 15 million CircleCI workflows to find out what sets the best teams apart. In this report, we break down by the numbers what benchmarks the highest-performing software teams of 2023 are meeting, and offer practical recommendations on how to shore up any team’s performance metrics.

The 2023 State of Software Delivery covers in detail:

• Which metrics are most important to track, including the one metric that tells the most about your organization’s ability to bounce back from failure
• Data-backed benchmarks for each metric
• Recommendations for teams of all sizes and stages to accelerate delivery and quality

The 2023 edition also contains a special focus on the emergence of platform teams, with specific guidance on how these key players can enhance performance on 4 key metrics across all the teams they support.

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