Copyright 2015 Scott Ambler + Associates 2015 Q1 Agile State of the Art Survey Results Scott W....

Copyright 2015 Scott Ambler + Associates

2015 Q1 Agile State of the ArtSurvey Results

Scott W. Ambler

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@scottwambler

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About the Survey

• Ran from the first week of March to the second week of April 2015 under the title “2015 Q1 Agile State of the Art Survey”

• Survey link included in:– www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ page– Posting to Agile and Lean Software Development,

Agile CMMI, and the DAD discussion groups on LinkedIn

– Twitter postings via @scottwambler

• Data, summary, and slides downloadable from www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

• 157 respondents




For team with iterations/sprints, the length is:

> 4 weeks

4 weeks

3 weeks

2 weeks

1 week or less

1%

7%

15%

65%

13%

Source: SA+A 2015 Q1 Agile State of the Art Survey


Internal Release Cadence of Agile Teams

> Annually or Other; 3%

Annually; 2%

Bi-annually; 2%

Quarterly; 1%

Bi-monthly; 3%

Monthly; 8% End of itera-tion; 38%

Several times an iteration,

24%

Daily; 9%

Several times a day; 11%



Production Release Cadence of Agile Teams

> Annually or Other; 12%

Annually; 3%

Bi-annually; 4%

Quarterly; 23%

Bi-monthly; 8%

Monthly; 16%

End of itera-tion; 24%

Several times an iteration;

5%

Daily; 2%

Several times a day; 3%



Technical Debt Avoidance Strategies

Detailed up-front architecture modeling

Team members trained in technical debt

Team works with Enterprise Architects

Team includes Architecture Owner/Agile Architect

Tech debt considered when designing

Lightweight up-front architecture

12%

16%

19%

39%

49%

53%



Technical Debt Identification Strategies

Explictly measure tech debt across IT

Continuous integration strategy includes the database

Measure tech debt within teams

Continous integration includes code analysis

We know technical debt when we see it

8%

10%

20%

35%

61%



Technical Debt Removal Strategies

Database refactoring

User interface refactoring

Code refactoring

38%

53%

90%



Technical Debt Funding Strategies

Cost of addressing tech debt is tracked

Value of addressing tech debt is tracked

Specific projects to pay down tech debt

Paying down tech debt automatically funded

Specific requirements to pay down tech debt

5%

14%

23%

48%

49%



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