Survey Reveals
Communication is Today’s Biggest Agile Challenge;
Continuous Delivery is a Hot, Trending Agile Topic
Serena
Software today announced the results of a new global survey of IT
professionals that focused on the current state of agile software development.
The research centered on what is working with regards to agile development
methodology, the extent of agile adoption in enterprise IT organizations today,
biggest challenges and more. The key findings revealed that development teams
have united on agile practices, but lack the communication with customers,
operations and other development teams, which slow projects and agile success.
The
Serena survey was conducted at the recent Agile 2012 Conference
where enterprise IT professionals from around the globe joined to discuss
current and best agile development practices. Respondents were polled from a
variety of industries. The sampling of participants polled included general
attendees and speakers.
This survey
offers fascinating insight into the areas of agile IT that are doing well,
while revealing where work is needed. In addition to learning about issues
pertaining to agile development, such as lack of good communication, for
example, we also learned that agile IT is on the rise and of those who have
deployed agile projects they are quite satisfied. It’s clear that agile IT
should focus on understanding and prioritizing customer demand.
The three key themes that came out
of the survey include:
·
Agile is
doing well enough, but could be better: The survey shows that agile
development practices are still not widely embraced; 49 percent says their
company is doing some agile deployment work. However, of those that have
deployed, 52 percent reported they are happy with their current agile projects.
The survey also shows that 55 percent of respondents are investigating or
already doing some form of continuous delivery work, a hot agile topic today.
·
Communication
is today’s biggest agile challenge: According to the research, more than 50
percent of respondents indicated that understanding and also prioritizing
customer demand needed the most improvement for agile to be successful. Both
managers and developers agreed that four of the top five agile roadblocks involved
working with other teams and customers.
·
Stakeholders
need to be more involved with new release projects: While agile development
teams are having success, survey respondents feel that upstream and downstream
stakeholders are left out the communication loop with sprints. Even though they
are the first in line to respond, IT Operations and Support are involved with
less than 40 percent of release plans.
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