The findings of Humanitec's DevOps Benchmarking Study suggest that top-performing engineering teams share certain characteristics, including a "you build it, you run it" philosophy, which is surprisingly common among high-performing teams, and team culture, which Kaspar von Gruenberg believes is the determining factor that sets top teams apart from others. The study found that dedicated Ops engineers are not necessarily a determinant of success, and that teams transitioning to a "you build it, you run it" model can experience significant productivity losses due to "shadow operations." The survey also revealed that architecture and metrics were less helpful in explaining why some teams performed better than others, highlighting the importance of team culture and setup.