Yesterday, Joel Semeniuk asked if I could dig up a list of resources showing the business momentum of Agile methodologies. I was able to pull three core resources off the web, most notably on SlideShare.com (note: if you ever need to deliver a presentation in front of a group of people, check out the website. It has two great features in my opinion - a search bar to find presentations based on the text contained within, and an option to download .ppt files). Here they are:
http://www.slideshare.net/melnik/empirical-evidence-of-agile-methods-190997/
http://www.slideshare.net/sgreene/salesforcecom-agile-transformation-agile-2007-conference
http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-alliance-survey-2006;jsessionid=7F263F7EC87B20F4F440448A732B6FC0
http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/proof.htm
The best one out of the pack was delivered by Grigori Melnik (from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group) - he spoke recently at the Patterns and Practices Summit in Quebec. Here are some of the facts that stood out:
- Growth of Agile in Banking (Lloyds), Transportation (CP Rail) and Communication (Telus) sectors (from a 2005 study)
- From a Melnik/Maurer study in 2005, Agile as a methodology provides a job satisfaction rate of 29.4% (as opposed to 9.9% non-Agile)
- From a 2007 study, of 1700 people polled, 37% adopted Scrum (followed closely by 23% - Scrum/XP hybrid)
Rather than repeat what's on the slides - here is an interactive version of the deck to check out: