2018 IT Success Rate Survey Results Scott W. Ambler www.scottambler.com @scottwambler Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium

Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium How To Use These Slides We 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: 2018 IT Success Rate Survey Results posted at Ambysoft.com/surveys/success2018.html Some slides have notes Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium

Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium About the Survey Ran from January 15, 2018 to February 28, 2018 under the title “2018 IT Success Rate Survey” Survey link included in: www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ page Twitter postings via @scottwambler Data, summary, and slides downloadable from www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ 149 respondents Questions included an “I don’t know” option. When processing the data from those questions, we have excluded those answers from the analysis. A bit disappointed with only 54 responses. It is very difficult to get people to fill out a survey that is focused on data issues. Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium

Interesting Findings from the 2018 IT Success Rate Survey We aren’t able to compare the success rate by individual paradigms this year due to an insufficient number of non-agile responses. However, we have grouped several paradigms in an effort to compare, but the sample sizes are still small Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium

Success Rates of IT Delivery Teams Number of respondents: Traditional + Ad hoc: 21 CD + Lean: 19 Iterative: 14 Agile: 60 Total: 104 Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium

Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium What type(s) of software development effort/project is it? (multiple responses allowed) Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium

What Type of Work are Agile Teams Doing? New Development (78%) Sustainment (50%) 44% 28% 17% 3% 3% 2% 2% Package Implementation (9%) Notes: Does not include teams doing marketplace experiments Percentages may not add up due to rounding. Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium

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Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium About SA+A Scott Ambler + Associates (SAA) is a IT management consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations adopt disciplined agile strategies, particularly at scale. We offer training, coaching, and transformation services. Our website is ScottAmbler.com. We can help. Copyright 2018 Disciplined Agile Consortium