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Agile Adoption Survey 2007
Scott W. Ambler
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Agile Adoption Survey March 2007 Advertised in Editors blog on www.ddj.com
Data, summary, and slides downloadablefrom www.ambysoft.com/surveys/
781 respondents: 52% were developers, 22% were in management
40% had 10-20 years IT experience, 33% had 20+years
33% worked in orgs of 1000+ people 85% worked in commercial firms
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Has Your Organization Adopted
One or More Agile Techniques?
Yes
69%
No
31%
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When Will You Adopt Agile
(241 said they hadnt yet)
4% 8%
12%
9%
9%
12%
46%
24 Months N v r Don' Know
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Adoption Rate of Agile Techniques
539
57
21
22
28
105
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
Curr ntly Doing Agile
Within Year
12-24 Months
> 24 Months
Never
Don't Know When
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% of Successful Agile Projects
44%
33%
12%
5% 6%
90%+ 75-90% 50-74% 25-49% >25%
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% of Successful Agile Projects(296 co-located, 251 not co-location, 130 offshoring)
44.8
32.7
12.1
4.7
5.7
51.7
30
9.5
4.1
4.8
33.1
29.1
21.5
7.2
9.2
20.1
18.5
27.7
8.5
24.6
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
90%+
75-90%
50-74%
25-49%
>25%
All Co-Located Not Co-Located Offshoring
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Length of Iterations (% respondents)
5
17
32.6
12.5
21
6.6
1.9
1.9
1.4
< 1 Week
1 Week
2 Weeks
3 Weeks
4 Weeks
5-6 Weeks
7-8 Weeks
> 8 Weeks
No Iterations
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Agile Team Size
135
135
90
41
11
6
5
165
144
73
30
6
3
2
0 50 100 150 200
1 to 5
6 to 10
11 to 20
21 to 50
51-100
101 to 200
200+
Attempt Success
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Number of Agile Projects Run
64
194
82
30
57
1
2 to 5
5 to 10
10 to 20
20+
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Survey Says: Agilists are Modeling
31.8
53.4
68.2
66.7
85.5
47
65.9
77.2
77.7
92.7
0 20 40 60 80 100
CASE Tool Modeling
Paper Modeling
Init. Agile Arch. Modeling
Init. Agile Req. Modeling
Whiteboard Sketching
% Finding it Useful % Applying Technique
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Effectiveness of Various Practices
on Agile Teams (out of 5) Iterative Development (4.38) Regular Delivery of Working Software (4.19)
Configuration Mgmt (4.06)
Whiteboard Modeling (4.01)
Customer Tests (3.94)
TDD (3.91)
Daily Stand ups (3.88)
Active Stakeholder Participation (3.88)
Coding Standards (3.83)
Code Refactoring (3.81)
Prove Architecture Early (3.80)
Simple Design (3.78)
Flexible Architectures (3.74)
Evolutionary Design (3.70)
Self Organizing Teams (3.61)
Initial Agile Arch Modeling (3.60)
Initial Agile Req Modeling (3.57)
Regular Status Reports (3.54)
Independent Testing (3.53)
Architectural Spikes (3.52)
Paper-Based Modeling (3.43)
Code Inspections (3.43)
Pair Programming (3.40)
Database Testing (3.37)
Database refactoring (3.31)
Model Reviews (3.14)
CASE Modeling (3.03)
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Value of Various Work Products
on Agile Teams (out of 5) Working Software (4.22)
Source Code (4.22)
Developer Tests (3.96)
Whiteboard Sketches (3.90)
Iteration Task List (3.87)
Customer Tests (3.87)
Arch Spec - High Level (3.66)
Defect Reports (3.61)
Velocity (metric) (3.56)
Requirements Spec - High Level (3.52)
Use Cases - Light (3.52)
Test Plan (3.39)
Burn Down Chart (3.35)
Paper models (3.22)
Use Cases - Detailed (2.96)
Requirements Spec - Detailed (2.90)
Arch Spec - Detailed (2.88)
Gantt Chart - High Level (2.70)
Gantt Chart - Detailed (2.21)