Once again VersionOne has provided an excellent insight into the global state of agility with over 2,500 responses with a truly global reach of respondents from 88 countries. Here is a copy of the 4th Annual State of Agility Survey 2009. Overall, the most striking results from the survey were the broadness and distribution of adoption across varying company sizes, projects and numbers of teams. There does not appear to be a distinction any more regarding agile is for small companies/projects/teams - it is being effectively implemented across the board.

Some of the key datapoints in the survey:

• Scrum and Scrum/XP hybrid increased adoption to 74% of the responses
• Most important reason for adopting agile - time to market
• Most important benefit in adopting agile - managing changing priorities
• Largest barrier to adoption - management
• Greatest concern with adoption - lack of upfront planning
• Biggest cause of failure in agile - lack of experience (see chart above)