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AI-Assisted Software Development: Team Profiles and Capabilities for Putting Research into Action

DORA's 2025 research maps AI adoption profiles: which team structures actually ship faster.

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Why it matters

A major industry research foundation (DORA) has released organizational playbooks for AI-assisted development, bridging the gap between capability research and workplace deployment. Practitioners can use these team profiles to structure their own adoptions and avoid common pitfalls.

The key facts

9 to know
  1. DORA 2025 research focuses on organizational system design for AI in software development

  2. Research identifies specific team profiles and success capabilities for AI adoption

  3. Framed as 'AI as amplifier' — returns tied to organizational strategy, not just tooling

  4. Published by InfoQ; Ben Linders reporting on research-to-practice bridge

  5. DORA 2025 research on AI in software development

  6. Team profiles and success capabilities framework

  7. Organizational system design as driver of AI ROI

  8. AI positioned as an amplifier within org structure

  9. Focus on moving research into practice/action

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Publisher excerpt: AI is an amplifier; strategic focus on the organizational system brings the greatest returns. DORA's 2025 research on AI in software development provides team profiles and success capabilities that can be used to put the research into practice. By Ben Linders
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