Adopt Agile or Improve your use of it!

Adopt Agile or Improve your use of it!

Curious about benefits of Agile and Scrum?

Agile and Scrum enable you to:

• Respond to market changes while controlling risk
• Increase ROI (return on investment)
• Continuously improve your process
• Increase quality of your products
• Work at a sustainable pace

What are the Statistics?

• Accelerating time to market is again the number-one reason for agile adoption (22%).
• In 2010 there was an increase in productivity (74%)
• In 2011 productivity improved to 75% (but included the two following benefits) - Manage changing customer priorities (84%) - Project visibility (77%)

Tools

Tools currently being used (or planned) include: 

• Automated Acceptance Tools (20%)
• Release Management Tools (16%)
• Continuous Integration Tools (16%)

When you have multiple people working on one or more projects all at the same time, good communication is critical. Using the right agile project management (APM) tools for the job can mean the difference between monumental success and utter frustration.

Various Software Tools

• Rally/RallyDev
• VersionOne
• Atlassian – JIRA w/GreenHopper
• Assembla
• Pivotal Tracker
• ScrumDo
• Agilo Software
• Basecamp
• Gemini
• Mingle
• ScrumWorks Pro

Source of Statistics:

Rally Software