What we’ve learned talking to 70+ engineering managers about software deployments

Aug 22, 2016 by Armory

As Marc Andreessen famously said in 2011, software is eating the world. Software is being used to solve the world’s problems. Software platform companies (like Uber or Airbnb) are disrupting traditional industries (like taxis and hotels).

In this new era of Responsive Organizations, a company’s ability to imagine, develop and deploy software determine its chances of staying relevant in a world where software rules. It’s no longer OK for a user’s digital experience to be sub-par. To stay competitive, companies need to learn to create magical user experiences through software.

We’ve interviewed over seventy senior engineering managers in organizations of all sizes to better understand the challenges they were facing in achieving this new normal. Here’s what we learned:

One sr. engineering manager put it best when he said “developers just want to develop,” so anything that helps them focus on their work is valuable. We couldn’t agree more.

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