Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler State of the IT Union July 2010 Survey Results Scott W. Ambler

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler How To Use These Slides I have provided these slides, and the raw data behind them, so that others can use them in their own work. You may reuse all, or a part of, this slide deck as long as you provide a clear reference to the source. The suggested reference is: Results from Scott Ambler’s July 2010 State of the IT Union Survey posted at Some slides have notes

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler About the Survey July 2010 Survey link included in: –June 2010 DDJ Agile Newsletter –Jon Erickson’s blog at – pagewww.ambysoft.com/surveys/ –Posting to –Posting to Scott Ambler’s blog at Data, summary, and slides downloadable from respondents –32% were programmers or agile team members, 35% were managers or team lead/Scrum masters –89% had 10+ years in IT –15% worked in orgs of 500+ IT people –73% North American, 16% European, 8% Asia Pacific

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler Agile Success Rates by Team Size Note: Accurate to within +/-6.5%

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler Perceived Project Success Rates by Team Size Note: Accurate to within +/-6.5%

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler IT Project Team Size Trends Compared with two years ago: –40% of respondents indicated that teams are getting smaller –38% indicated team size remains the same –18% indicated that team size is increasing

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler Why is IT team size growing? Note: Accurate to within +/-6.5%

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler Why is IT team size shrinking? Note: Accurate to within +/-6.5%

Copyright 2010 Scott W. Ambler How Team Size Affects IT Strategies To reflect team size: –57% of respondents indicated that they vary their team organization strategy –51% indicated that their organization tailors their software process –35% indicated that their organization change their tooling strategy –28% indicated that their senior management varies their governance strategy