Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Agile Survey Results Summary Scott W. Ambler
Copyright 2006 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 2006 ‘Agile Adoption Rate Survey’ posted at
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler The Survey 4232 Respondents March 2006 Used Dr. Dobb’s Journal and Software Development mailing lists Summary appears in the September 2006 issue of DDJ at Data downloadable from
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Comparison with Previous Surveys This survey repeats, with improvements, the Shine survey of 2003 ( Shine Survey 131 respondents 84.7% of respondents have average or above knowledge of agile methods 59% of all organizations followed XP This Survey 4232 respondents 46% of the respondents have average or above knowledge of agile methods Included “I don’t know” as a response for many questions Adoption of XP: 22.5% of all organizations have adopted XP, although that is 57.2 % of orgs that have adopted an agile method
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Respondent Skill Levels (1=Unskilled, 5 = Expert)
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Size of the IT Organization
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Organization Size There was no statistical differences in the results based on organization size
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Knowledge of Agile Methods
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Have You Adopted An Agile Methodology?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Methodology Adoption (Multiple Answers Allowed)
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Have You Adopted Any Agile Techniques?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Technique Adoption (Multiple Answers Allowed) Active Stakeholder Participation938 AMDD260 Code Refactoring1467 Code Regression Testing1383 Co-location447 Common coding guidelines1595 Continuous integration1113 Database refactoring416 Database regression testing407 Pair programming587 Single sourcing information241 TDD959
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected Your Productivity?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected Your Productivity?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected the Quality of Systems Deployed?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected the Quality of Systems Deployed?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected the Cost of System Development?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected the Cost of System Development?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected the Business Stakeholder Satisfaction?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler How Have Agile Approaches Affected the Business Stakeholder Satisfaction?
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Who Had A Bad Experience? 91 ( 2.15% ) respondents had at least one really bad experience: –19 (0.45%) had much lower productivity –18 (0.43%) had much lower quality –73 (1.72%) had much higher cost –20 (0.47%) had much lower business satisfaction 709 (16.74%) had some bad experience –See above, plus: –140 (3.31%) had somewhat lower productivity –64 (1.51%) had somewhat lower quality –539 (12.72%) had somewhat higher cost –59 (1.39%) had somewhat lower business satisfaction There was a correlation between knowledge and results –E.g. The people knowledgeable with agile approaches had better quality, stakeholder satisfaction, … than those who weren’t knowledgeable
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Whence Modeling and Documentation? There was a statistical correlation between adoption of newer methods such as Agile Unified Process (AUP) or MSF Agile and adoption of Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) Feature Driven Development (FDD) and Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) have modeling, and arguably documentation, as explicit parts of the methods There was no correlation between adoption of Extreme Programming (XP) and AMDD –This leads me to believe that the question may not have been clear to people, as many XPers are clearly taking an agile approach to modeling and AMDD came out of XP to begin with
Copyright 2006 Scott W. Ambler Suggested Resources The Agile Modeling Site – The Agile Data Site –