Partial Adoption for Agile Approaches

In a recent pool, the Methods & Tools newsletter asked the following 
question: At what stage is the agile approach (XP,Scrum, FDD, ...) 
adoption at your location?

Not aware                                                     26%
Not using                                                     16%
Investigating                                                 14%
Analysed and rejected                                          3%
Pilot projects                                                 4%
Partial implementation (adoption of some agile practices)     17%
Partial deployment (some projects are using this approach)    12%
Deployed (all new projects are using this approach)            8%


Participants: 232

There is a good balance between the three main situations of agile 
approaches' adoption (no, maybe, yes): 
- around 40% of the participants' organisations are not using an 
agile approach or practice
- around 20% are investigating it or running pilot projects
- around 40% have adopted, fully or partially, an agile approach to 
software development. 


The numbers on agile approach usage could be slightly biased. As 
Methods & Tools has published some articles on this topic in its 
recent issues, the proportion of agile practitioners in its 
readership and web sites visitors could be higher than in the "real 
world". 

If you look at each question, you could be shocked that 26% of 
organisations are even not aware that something like an Agile 
movement have been active in the software development world these 
recent years. It is however a sad reality that some organisations are 
functioning in a "not invented here" mode. They think that their 
situation is "the best they can get" and they are not interested in 
what is happening "outside". It is also true that agility is people 
oriented and that most organisations have a tendency to be focused on 
process oriented activities. There is also a high number of 
respondents with partial implementation of agile practices. Even if 
some purists could argue that you cannot be 50% agile, this is 
another point showing that agility is reality oriented. You can 
rarely change completely and immediately a software development 
process.

Source: Methods & Tools (http://www.methodsandtools.com)







 
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