Agile Software Development
Practice Adoption Survey
Narendra Kurapati, Venkata Sarath Chandra Manyam,
and Kai Petersen
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Ericsson AB
XP 2012
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Outline
• Introduction
• Survey Design
• Results
Introduction
• Agile methodologies are often not used “out of the box” by
practitioners, instead they select the practices that fit their
needs best.
• We investigated used agile practices, combinations,
degree of compliance, and how successful practitioners
perceive the adoption.
Introduction (Cont.)
The following survey aims at answering the following research
questions:
• RQ1: How commonly used are individual agile practices?
• RQ2: Which agile practices are used together by practitioners,
and how common are the combinations?
• RQ3: To what degree does the software industry comply to
Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum?
• RQ4: As how successful do the practitioners perceive the
adoption of agile practices in terms of customer satisfaction
and employee satisfaction?
Survey Design
• Find 25 agile practices used in global software
development
• Send survey out to 600 practitioners, and post survey on
LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Google groups
• Survey structure
• Introduction: Shortly explain the purpose
• Demographics: Ask information about organization
• Agile Practice Adoption: Select agile practices that they use in
their project
• Agile Practice Adoption: Select agile practices that they use in
their organization
• Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction
• Contact Details
Agile Practices Selected
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Office Structure
Pair Programming
Planning
Game/On-Site
Customer
Tracking Progress
40 Hour Week
Refactoring
Retrospective
Short/Small
Release
Simple Design
Sprint/Iteration
Sprint Planning
Meeting
Sprint Review
Meeting
Stand-ups
Stories/Features
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Team Work
Test-Driven
Development
Testing
Coding Standards
Collective
Ownership
Communication
Configuration and
Change
Management
Continuous
Integration
Documentation
Informative
Workshops
Metaphors
Results: Response Type
Results: RQ1 in Project Level
Results: RQ1 in Organizational Level
Results: RQ2 in Project Level
Results: RQ2 in Organizational Level
Results: RQ3
Results: RQ4 Employee Satisfaction
Results: RQ4 Customer Satisfaction