State of Software Development 2020

The State of Software Development 2020 report gives you the fresh data you need to benchmark your activities against survey participants. You get insights to further improve your developer team and to keep up with the rapidly changing industry. Plus, you get to compare the new data to previous years.

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1. SOFTWARE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT TRENDS TRENDS Use the left and right arrows or click this on the right
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5. Software development changes at incredibly fast pace...
6. It's been 3 years since we started publishing the State of Software Development report.
7. We took a snapshot We took a snapshot every year every year
8. And segmented the And segmented the data. data.
9. To uncover interesting insights... To uncover interesting insights...
10. In 2020, we took it to the In 2020, we took it to the next level. next level.
11. From 81 Countries From 81 Countries 700+ Participants 700+ Participants In 2020 In 2020
12. Lets see what we've got. Lets see what we've got.
13. CHALLENGES CHALLENGES
14. 22.46% of the participants said CAPACITY CAPACITY is their biggest challenge
15. 19.46% of the participants said SHARING KNOWLEDGE SHARING KNOWLEDGE is their biggest challenge
16. 16.74% of the participants said PRIORITIZING DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIZING DEVELOPMENT is their biggest challenge
17. What is your biggest challenge in software development? Changes since 2018 2019 Capacity 2018 2020 26.16% Sharing knowledge 13.91% Hiring talent 23.84% 21.29% 20% 15.83% 22.46% 14.88% 19.46%
18. CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPERS VS ENGINEERING MANAGERS
19. 24.25% Sharing knowledge 24.25% Sharing knowledge 23.36% Capacity 23.36% Capacity Managers Developers
20. The most popular programming language is... JavaScript // 59.08% said it's their primary programming language
21. What are your company’s primary What are your company’s primary programming languages? programming languages? Java JavaScript TypeScript Python C# 26.32% 23.89% 23.75% More data is available in the report. Click to download. 59.08% 29.04%
22. TypeScript's huge growth TypeScript's huge growth Since 2018 2018 2020 11.2% 26.3%
23. MANAGING MANAGING SOFTWARE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT
24. What agile software development methodologies do you use? Kanban Scrum Not using agile methodology Agile modeling Lean software development 58.94% 33.33% 17.17% 12.88% 9.01% More data is available in the report. Click to download.
25. TAKES THE LEAD TAKES THE LEAD AS THE MOST POPULAR PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOL JIRA JIRA
26. What tool do you use for project management? Trello JIRA Other GitHub Issues Github Projects 49.79% 19.89% 15.31% 10.01% 6.58% More data is available in the report. Click to download.
27. What source control client(s) do you use? GitKraken Command line interface Github Desktop Not using any 36.19% 27.18% 15.74% 11.87% 10.44% More data is available in the report. Click to download. SourceTree
28. COMMUNICATION 58.66% of the developer teams prefer to use... SLACK SLACK
29. Fun fact: MICROSOFT TEAMS HUGE GROWTH from 5.61% 2019
30. to 16.74% 2020 Fun fact: MICROSOFT TEAMS HUGE GROWTH
32. Hiring & Retaining Hiring & Retaining Talent Talent
33. THE MOST IMPORTANT HIRING CRITERIA IS...
34. WILLINGNESS TO LEARN WILLINGNESS TO LEARN According to 44,55% of the respondents WILLINGNESS TO LEARN WILLINGNESS TO LEARN Icons by Icons8
35. What are your most important hiring criteria? Cultural fit Willingness to learn Technical skill evaluation (tests) Work experience 39.60% 37.62% More data is available in the report. Click to download. 44.55% 37.62% 44.55%
36. How do you keep software developers motivated? Team (team spirit, culture) Challenging/engaging work Autonomy Exciting product Variety of tasks 60.40% 59.41% 35.64% 31.35% 28.38% More data is available in the report. Click to download.
37. Software Software Outsourcing Outsourcing
38. Outsourced software development fully or partly in the last 12 months 37.48% 37.48%
39. 65% were satisfied
40. MEASURING MEASURING PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE
41. Working software Completed tasks Not using any metrics 44,49% 43,78% 32.33% What metrics do you use to measure developer performance? More data is available in the report. Click to download.
42. #1 cause of delivery problems #1 cause of delivery problems Developers Unrealistic Expectations Managers Lack of clearly defined deliverables
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