The Future of Platform Engineering report
Octopus Deploy published the 2026 Future of Platform Engineering report, based on primary survey data from 379 technical platform practitioners and a review of current literature. The report finds that automation and efficiency are the main reasons organizations adopt platforms, and that lack of clear strategy is a more common obstacle than technical complexity. It also reports that teams with mandatory adoption achieved most of their goals more often (62.2%) than teams with optional adoption (about 27.5%).
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams evaluating adoption models may weigh the reported link between mandatory adoption, leadership direction and goal delivery when deciding how to position a platform. The source gives no methodology detail beyond the sample size, so the figures are best treated as directional.
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