Agile approaches have been around since 2001. Over the years, it has been adopted and practiced by various software development companies. However, the use of agile approaches has drastically increased in the past few years.
It was in the year 2001, when the agile manifesto comprising four values and twelve principles was founded by seventeen outstanding software developers. However, agile approaches took some time to be completely grasped and endorsed by IT companies. The last five years have seen a substantial upturn in the use of agile approaches. According to a research, the use of agile approaches in any way whatsoever has increased from 10% in the year 2010 to 80% till last year.
Out of the total organizations using the agile approach, almost 2/3rd of then work with Scrum. There are organizations that value other approaches like Kanban, Agile Unified Process, Feature Driven Development, Lean Programming, and more. However, there are not more than 15% of the organizations that use such approaches.
However, in the case of outsourcing trajectories, agile approaches have seen a steep decline. A recent study has shown that the use of agile approaches in outsourcing trajectories has decreased from 80% in the year 2010 to 30% in the recent time.
A trend of similar kind says that more than half of the organizations respond positively to the questions on the satisfaction level of the result of an agile project. This is usually measured by assuming the increase in productivity from 0 to 50% with an average of 20% and a decline in cost from 0 to 50% with an average of 30%. In addition, an improved time-to-market of 10 to 60% with an average of 30% is also assumed.
While working with agile approaches, there are various subjective opinions on agile misconceptions, agile pitfalls, agile benefits, and agile success factors.
