What counts as "low confidence" in a deployment?

Teams that can't say with certainty what's included in a release, or what will happen when it runs, before it hits production.

Does this apply to ISV and 2GP package teams too?

Yes. Package development is one of the least-served areas in Salesforce DevOps tooling. Serpent supports 1GP and 2GP packaging, versioning, and subscriber-org release workflows on every plan.

What's the fastest way to move off change sets?

Start with your next release instead of a full rewrite. Serpent reads your existing metadata and orgs, so you can run a guided deployment without migrating everything at once.

Is AI-assisted deployment actually safe?

Yes, when it's guarded. Serpent's MCP server lets AI clients trigger real actions, but every deployment still goes through AI code review and requires human approval before it ships.

The 2026 Salesforce DevOps benchmark

The State of Salesforce DevOps in 2026

Real data on how Salesforce teams actually release software today, and where most are still stuck.

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State of Salesforce DevOps, 2026

Most teams are still deploying the hard way.

Data from Salesforce Ben's State of Salesforce DevOps report, still true today.

Still deploying with change sets

Admins

42%

Developers

19%

Share of respondents, 0-100%

80%

of teams report low confidence in their deployments

Where teams get stuck

Five gaps behind those numbers.

The patterns driving low deployment confidence across Salesforce teams.

The change-set problem

Change sets ship without version history, without a diff, and without a way to test what's about to happen. 42% of admins still rely on them because nothing else fits how they work day to day.

Compare Serpent to change sets→

The DevOps-engineer gap

Most Salesforce teams have no dedicated DevOps engineer. Pipelines get built by whoever has time, then break in ways nobody on the team knows how to debug.

Browse common Salesforce deployment errors→

The admin-accessibility gap

Git-based tooling was built for developers. The moment work moves into a branch, admins and testers lose visibility into what's actually shipping.

Start with the Salesforce DevOps glossary→

The ISV and 2GP blind spot

Package development, 1GP and 2GP versioning, subscriber-org releases, doesn't fit the workflows most Salesforce DevOps tools were built around. ISVs are left stitching together their own process.

Read the Salesforce DevOps fundamentals guide→

The MCP and AI-native shift

AI assistants can now open pull requests and trigger deployments directly. Teams without a native MCP server are stuck copying context back and forth by hand.

See Serpent's native MCP server→

What good looks like

Teams that fixed it, in numbers.

Real outcomes from Salesforce teams running Serpent today.

99%

customer success rate

46,200+

hours saved on releases

30+

Salesforce teams onboarded

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Where does your team stand?

Run the free Salesforce DevOps maturity assessment: five minutes, a score against the 2026 benchmark, and the next step for your team.

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Common questions

The state of Salesforce DevOps, answered

What the data means for your team, and how to act on it.

Where do these Salesforce DevOps statistics come from?

The change-set and deployment-confidence figures come from Salesforce Ben's State of Salesforce DevOps report. Serpent's own numbers, customer success rate, hours saved, and teams onboarded, come from our own usage data.

Why do so many admins still use change sets?

Change sets are built into Salesforce and need no Git knowledge, so admins default to them even though they offer no diff, no rollback, and no real audit trail.

Do we need a dedicated DevOps engineer to fix this?

No. Serpent's team sets your pipeline up for you and runs a hands-on session with your whole team, so you get proper Salesforce DevOps without a new hire.

How do we know where our team stands?

Run Serpent's free Salesforce DevOps maturity assessment. It scores your current process and points to the gaps worth fixing first.

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