1. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Agile Adoption Survey 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/scottAmbler.html

2. Copyright 2007 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’s March 2007 Agile Adoption Survey posted at www.agilemodeling.com/surveys/www.agilemodeling.com/surveys/ Some slides have notes

3. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Agile Adoption Survey March 2007 Advertised in Editor’s blog on www.ddj.com Data, summary, and slides downloadable from www.ambysoft.com/surveys/www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ 781 respondents: –52% were developers, 22% were in management –40% had 10-20 years IT experience, 33% had 20+ years –33% worked in orgs of 1000+ people –85% worked in commercial firms

4. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Has Your Organization Adopted One or More Agile Techniques?

5. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ When Will You Adopt Agile (241 said they hadn’t yet)

6. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Adoption Rate of Agile Techniques

7. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ % of Successful Agile Projects

8. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ % of Successful Agile Projects (296 co-located, 251 not co-location, 130 offshoring)

9. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Length of Iterations (% respondents)

10. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Agile Team Size

11. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Number of Agile Projects Run

12. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ Survey Says: Agilists are Modeling

13. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ 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)

14. Copyright 2007 Scott W. Ambler www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ 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)