Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler Process Framework Survey 2008 Scott W. Ambler

Copyright 2008 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 January 2008 Process Framework Survey posted at Some slides have notes

Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler Process Framework Survey January sent to DDJ mailing list and posting in Editor’s blog 339 respondents –40% were developers, 20% were in management, 22% architects –78% had 10+ years in IT –17% worked in orgs of IT people Overall goal was to explore adoption and success rates of various process frameworks such as CMMI, COBIT, ITIL, …

Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler Are People Applying Agile and CMMI Together?

Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler Effectiveness of Agile and CMMI We found the following success rates: –57.6% for CMMI-compliant traditional projects (107 responses) –56.8% for non-CMMI Agile projects (114 responses) –54.8% for non-CMMI traditional projects (172 responses) –53.4% for CMMI-compliant Agile projects (70 responses) Statistically these numbers are the same

Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler Framework Effectiveness According to Senior Staff

Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler % of Senior Staff Who Had Never Heard of a Given Framework

Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler Framework Effectiveness According to Developers

Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ambler % of Primary Audience for a Framework Who Hadn’t Heard About it (But Should Have) FrameworkPrimary Audience (Not Heard %) CMMIAll (23%) COBITIT Manager (52%) ITILIT Manager (32%) PMIProject/Program/Portfolio Manager (22%) Prince2Project/Program/Portfolio Manager (69.5%) TOGAFArchitect (53.6%) ZachmanArchitect (37.5%)