Announcing the 2025 DORA Report

Overview
The 2025 DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) Report is the latest edition of the annual State of DevOps study. Google Cloud shares new data on software delivery performance, organizational practices, and the impact of AI and cloud technologies on engineering outcomes.

Key Takeaways

• High-performing teams deliver changes 2x faster while maintaining lower change failure rates.
• Adoption of AI-assisted tooling correlates with a 15% increase in deployment frequency.
• Psychological safety and continuous learning remain the strongest predictors of elite performance.
• The report introduces an updated maturity model that includes cloud-native and generative-AI capabilities.

Who Would Benefit

• Engineering managers looking to benchmark their teams.
• Technical leaders planning AI-enhanced delivery pipelines.
• DevOps practitioners seeking evidence-based best practices.
• Executives evaluating the ROI of cloud and AI investments.

Frameworks and Methodologies

• DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, MTTR, change failure rate)
• Accelerate framework
• AI-augmented continuous delivery