This reference paper gives some industry leading insights into the absence of consistent dev standards and how to change this for the better. 

DevOps is all about improving collaboration so IT organizations can speed application time-to-market without sacrificing quality. In many cases, however, workflow orchestration is often left out of the equation. Instead, developers use various basic tools to code jobs as they build apps.  This paper delves in to what is wrong with this scenario and what to do about it.