DevOps adoption almost doubles in five years, Covid crisis accelerated adoption Survey shows DevOps on the rise, and may have helped boost IT productivity during the great corporate dispersal February 26, 2021 -- 17:52 GMT (09:52 PST) | Topic: IT Priorities Kudos to the information technology community over the past year, who helped maintain the connectivity and communications that held organizations together during the great corporate dispersal. Not only were many organizations able to carry on and even thrive, but the productivity of IT departments themselves remained strong. The productivity and continuous delivery of services by IT departments through the Covid crisis is due in no small part to DevOps -- the aligning and syncing of developer initiative with operations cadence. The events of the past year have only made DevOps more relevant.