Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Agile Adoption Survey 2007 Scott W. Ambler
Copyright 2007 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 March 2007 Agile Adoption Survey posted at Some slides have notes
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Agile Adoption Survey March 2007 Advertised in Editor’s blog on Data, summary, and slides downloadable from respondents: –52% were developers, 22% were in management –40% had years IT experience, 33% had 20+ years –33% worked in orgs of people –85% worked in commercial firms
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Has Your Organization Adopted One or More Agile Techniques?
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler When Will You Adopt Agile (241 said they hadn’t yet)
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Adoption Rate of Agile Techniques
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler % of Successful Agile Projects
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler % of Successful Agile Projects (296 co-located, 251 not co-location, 130 offshoring)
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Length of Iterations (% respondents)
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Agile Team Size
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Number of Agile Projects Run
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler Survey Says: Agilists are Modeling
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler 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)
Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler 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)