Agile State of the Art - November 2010 Survey Results

• Figure 1 depicts the amount of agile experience on 'agile teams'
• Experienced agile teams:
  • 66% provided an initial estimate/budget
  • 67% (of the 66%) evolved their initial estimate
  • 20% of teams did either evolutionary or staged-gate funding without an initial estimate at first
  • Had an average iteration length of 2.3 weeks, as depicted in Figure 2
  • Took an average of 4.6 weeks to run through a transition/release phase to move their solution into production, as depicted in Figure 3
  • Released ever 11.4 weeks on average
• Inexperienced agile teams:
  • 72% provided an initial estimate/budget
  • 62% (of the 72%) evolved their initial estimate
  • 12% of teams did either evolutionary or staged-gate funding without an initial estimate at first
  • Had an average iteration length of 2.6 weeks
  • Took an average of 6.0 weeks to run through a transition/release phase
  • Released ever 13.8 weeks on average

Figure 1. Amount of experience with agile on "agile teams".

Figure 2. Iteration lengths for experienced agile teams.

Figure 3. Amount of time experienced agile teams invested in releasing/transitioning their solution into production.

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