What's the State of Agile Software Development?

Accelerate

Delivery

Make Better

Decisions

Increase

Agility

Ensure

Alignment

9th Annual State of Agile™

Survey

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Respondent Demographics

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Industries Represented

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Personal Experience with Agile

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Company Experience & Adoption

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Percentage of Teams Using Agile

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Reasons for Adopting Agile

Top 2 reasons same as last year, increase productivity moved to top 3

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Distributed Agile Teams

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Agile Maturity

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Benefits from Implementing Agile

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Actual Improvements from Implementing Agile

Top 3

benefits of

agile,

4 years

in a row

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Agile Methodology Used

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Agile in Outsourced Dev Projects

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Top 5 Agile Techniques

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Leading Causes of Agile Failures

Note: 2 of Top 5 Related to Cultural Change

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Barriers to Further Adoption

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How Success is Measured with Agile Initiatives

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How Success is Measured on a Day-to-Day Basis

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Scaling Methods & Approaches

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Top 5 Tips for Success with Scaling Agile

Communities

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General Tool Uses & Preferences

Agile project

management tool

intent to use

doubled

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Agile Project Management Tool Usage

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Satisfaction with Agile Project Management Tool Choice

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Respondents were asked,

regardless of which tool they

were using, whether they would recommend based on past or

present use.

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9th Annual State of Agile Survey

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