

The 2025 DORA Report: An engineering leadership perspective
AI is rapidly reshaping what’s possible in software engineering. Organizations are harnessing AI to accelerate delivery cycles, unlock new levels of productivity, and empower teams to focus on high-value innovation.
The 2025 DORA report captures this momentum: companies adopting AI are realizing gains in individual effectiveness, throughput, quality and overall performance.
Benefits
Accelerated delivery cycles
Rapidly transform ideas into production with AI-powered workflows, moving from weeks to hours while delivering consistent, measurable value across the software lifecycle.
Enhanced innovation focus
Free software engineering teams from manual processes to focus on high-value, creative problem-solving, driving strategic business impact with the support of AI-embedded tools.
Optimized developer experience
Streamlined self-service platforms and unified workflows reduce complexity, enabling teams to work faster, onboard quickly, and collaborate effectively in a future-ready software engineering culture.
Increased efficiency gains
Eliminate inefficiencies with data-driven insights, deployment automation, and operationalized AI, ensuring seamless operations and sustained improvements for lasting organizational growth and agility.
Our services
Leverage data-driven metrics and real-time analysis to identify inefficiencies, reduce waste, and improve engineering workflows for measurable, actionable performance improvements.
Develop tailored strategies to optimize engineering efficiency, align teams, and implement AI-driven practices to accelerate delivery and boost business outcomes.
Implement AI tools and optimize software lifecycle processes to accelerate delivery, eliminate inefficiencies, and enhance productivity, quality and developer satisfaction.
Architect scalable, cloud-native platforms with self-service capabilities, automation, and built-in security to streamline development, reduce friction and improve team performance.
Design strategic frameworks for global capability centers, optimizing team structures, communication flows, and delivery alignment to enhance scalability and operational efficiency.
Establish or modernize global capability centers with scalable infrastructure, upskilled teams, and best-practice frameworks to enhance collaboration and delivery speed.
Ensure seamless operations of global capability centers by optimizing workflows, governance, and collaboration to sustain high efficiency and continuous improvement.
Thoughtworks crafts best-in-class solutions for our clients leveraging deep partnerships with industry leaders like AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, DX and Spotify. This powerhouse combination empowers us to design and deliver the perfect technology stack for each unique client.
Client success stories
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Engineering effectivenessTBC Bank: Embedding Engineering Effectiveness at Georgia’s leading financial institutionLearn more
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AI and MLcarsales: Driving excellence with operational transformation and AI-powered customer serviceLearn more
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Technology strategyGenerali: Speed as the key to digital changeLearn more
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