Stefan Mileschin

You just can’t get the staff any more

There are mounting concerns about software reliability, according to engineering productivity company Haystack Analytics.

The outfit published a review into software development industry performance in 2021 that investigated benchmarks and common trends between multiple industry reports. It found 57 percent of software engineers agreed “to a great extent” or “to a moderate extent” with the phrase "Software reliability at my workplace concerns me”.

The review also points to another report produced by Google’s DORA team showing that even amongst engineering teams considered to be “elite” performers, only 10 percent fully implemented the Site Reliability Engineering practices they investigated.

The report’s author, computer scientist Junade Ali, said: “The results are clear - psychological safety is paramount to preventing burnout, delivering better business outcomes and improving software reliability. The ability to balance the competing forces of risk and reward are an essential skill in engineering, empowering engineers to use their professional judgement with psychological safety is vital to addressing the issues we currently face in software reliability. For businesses to grow, engineers must be able to take calculated risks, using their professional judgement. No risk, no reward.”

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