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Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Agile Adoption Survey 2007

Scott W. Ambler

www.ambysoft.com/scottAmbler.html


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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)

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