Agile Practices Survey 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/scottAmbler.html Michael Vizdos www.implementingscrum.com Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ 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 and Michael Vizdos’s July 2009 Agile Practices Survey posted at www.agilemodeling.com/surveys/ Some slides have notes Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ About the Survey July 2009 Message sent out to several agile Yahoo groups mailing lists (extremeprogramming, agilemodeling, agiledatabases, scrumdevelopment, testdrivendevelopment) Data, summary, and slides downloadable from www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ 123 respondents: 31% were developers, 48% were in management or leadership roles 43% had 10-20 years IT experience, 29% had 21+ years 58% worked in North America, 21% in Europe, 12% in Asia Pacific 27% had 3-4 years of agile experience, 39% had 5 or more years We had a wide range of people, nearly half were non-developers. People had a fair bit of experience, many had 10+ years experience in IT I wish there had been more respondents. The agile community is being over surveyed. See http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/agileSurveys.html for some thoughts. Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

How many IT people were on your team? The majority of agile development teams are still fairly small, as are traditional teams for that matter. It’s interesting to see some large agile teams. At IBM we’ve got a fair number of teams in the 50+ range, and several teams in the hundreds of people. Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Does your team have to comply to industry regulations? Working in a regulatory environment can be very different than working in a non-regulatory one. Regulatory is one of seven scaling factors, see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ambler/entry/agile_scaling_factors Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Does your team follow a CMMI compliant agile process? A small number, but not insignificant, of agile teams are following a CMMI compliant process Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

How distributed were the IT people on your team? This shows that it is pretty much a myth that agile teams are co-located. The fact is that the majority of agile teams have to deal with some form of geographical distribution. Geographical distribution is also an agile scaling factor, see https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/ambler/entry/agile_scaling_factors Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Most Effective Practices Top 10 (out of 30) Respondents could choose up to 7 practices out of 30 Scores indicate % of respondents who choose that practice Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Practices Easiest to Learn Top 10 (out of 30) Respondents could choose up to 7 practices out of 30 Scores indicate % of respondents who choose that practice Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Practices Most Difficult to Learn Top 10 (out of 30) Respondents could choose up to 7 practices out of 30 Scores indicate % of respondents who choose that practice Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Practices Tried and Abandoned Top 8 (out of 30) Respondents could choose up to 7 practices out of 30 53 out of 123 people skipped this question Scores indicate % of respondents who choose that practice There was a several practices with a 9% score, but I cut this chart off at 10% Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

Practices People Want to Adopt Top 10 (out of 30) Respondents could choose up to 7 practices out of 30 Scores indicate % of respondents who choose that practice Indicates practices that people want to adopt but haven’t done so yet Copyright 2009 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/