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'State of Agile' Survey Open for Participation
Posted by Chris Sims on Jul 02, 2008 05:31 AM
VersionOne, a maker of agile project management tools, has announced that the third annual 'State of Agile Development' survey is open for participation. The online survey is intended to gauge the value of agile development practices in the field. Results will be announced on August 4th, at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto.This year's survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and will be open until July 21. Participants may remain anonymous, or may choose to provide an email address so that VersionOne can email them the results.
The survey covers:
- Personal experience
- Your company's experience and level of involvement with agile
- Which practices are in use
- Motivations for adopting agile
- Results achieved
The first survey , in 2006, had 722 participants from 47 countries. Of the companies represented, 84% were using agile somewhere in the organization. On average, participants had been using agile methods for 2.3 years.
When asked to identify the role of the initial champion of agile development, the results were:
| VP / Director of Development | 28% | |
| Project Manager | 18% | |
| Team Lead | 13% | |
| President / CEO | 11% | |
| Architect | 7% | |
| CIO | 5% | |
| Consultant | 5% |
The full results of the 2006 survey [pdf] are available for download.
Last year nearly 1,700 people from 71 countries participated in the second survey. Of the companies represented, 73.2% were using agile somewhere in the organization.
Asked how long they had been practicing agile development, respondents said:
| Greater than 5 years | 12% | |
| 2 - 5 years | 26.1% | |
| 1 - 2 years | 20.9% | |
| 6 - 12 months | 16.6% | |
| Less than 6 months | 16% | |
| Never | 8.4% |
And what role as the initial champion of agile development?
| Team Lead / Dev. Manager | 22% | |
| VP / Director of Development | 19% | |
| C-Level Executive | 18% | |
| Project Manager | 15% | |
| Architect | 8% | |
| Developer | 6% |
The full results of the 2007 survey [pdf] are available for download.
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