The New DevOps Performance Clusters
In 2022, the Accelerate State of DevOps Report contained a few surprises. One was a change to the traditional performance clusters. The report also introduced a new way to group organizations using an extra dimension.
This post introduces you to the original performance clusters, explains the changes, and describes how you can use the new groups.
Previous Changes
This isn’t the first time something has changed. There have been changes over the last eight years as researchers discover new connections or a new direction to explore. In addition, some past changes have had a direct impact on the new clustering technique.
In past DevOps reports, DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) researchers used four key metrics to divide organizations into sets based on performance: