State of Scrum

Scrum Alliance has an interesting report on the State of Scrum – 500 professionals in over 70 countries were surveyed for the report.  Of interest:

• Culture is key – corporations must aid an agile culture encouraging collaboration
• Scrum rules from an agile approach, followed by Kanban – no surprise
• Q12 and the PMO says a lot
• Certification, Q13, is curious.  I’d be interested in how many have actually read a scrum book prior to certification 😉
• Distributed teams, Q24, 24%
• Daily stand-ups, Q29 only 59%???  I wonder how many of those daily stand-ups are actually well run?
• Retrospectives, Q30, 62% – probably the same people who hold daily stand-ups.  40% need to leave the building fast
• Q31 – CI.  To me this just confirms that the software engineering community is still so lost in the wilderness on basic engineering principles or building software 😦

~ by mdavey on December 18, 2013.