VersionOne’s 9th annual State of Agile survey is the ONLY agile survey with nine years of historical data from thousands of respondents every year. Go to www.stateofagile.com to download the full survey for insights on how to measure agile success, top tips for scaling agile, and much more.

1. 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
VersionOne -
#1 Recommended Tool
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
www.stateofagile.com