VersionOne, in association with the Agile Project Leadership Network, are pleased to present the results from the second annual ‘State of Agile Development’ survey. The survey has become one of the largest in the Agile Development market; receiving almost seventeen hundred (1,700) responses with a truly global reach of respondents from seventy-one (71) countries.
The survey highlights some key aspects of Agile Development including:
- Teams practicing Agile Development are getting larger and more distributed.
- 31% of respondents are from development groups with over 250 people
- 74% of respondents are from development groups with over 20 people
- Agile development is delivering meaningful and measurable business results. Respondents reporting specific improvements greater than 10% include:
- Increased Productivity – 90% of respondents
- Reduced Software Defects – 85% of respondents
- Accelerated Time-to-Market – 83% of respondents
- Reduced Cost – 66% of respondents
“This year’s survey clearly shows teams practicing Agile development are getting larger and more distributed,” comments Robert Holler, VersionOne’s President and CEO. “Additionally, the results indicate that Agile development is paying off for companies by delivering measurable business value.”
Other key survey highlights include:
- The two most important reasons for adopting Agile were to:
- Enhance the ability to manage changing requirements (30%)
- Accelerate time-to-market (24%)
- The top two barriers to further adoption of Agile were:
- General resistance to change (36%) [was #2 in 2006]
- Personnel with necessary Agile experience (34%) [was #1 in 2006]
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