Appendix C
RESEARCH NOTES SUMMARY
Agile is popular and intuitively appealing, but those aren’t valid reasons to embrace it. Agile operates on empiricism, the philosophy that all hypotheses should be tested with empirical evidence. Companies deciding whether to try agile should look beyond inspirational anecdotes to unbiased, broad-based evidence on whether it works and how to improve the odds of success. Companies that are succeeding with agile pilots should probably examine the evidence on whether further scaling of agile tends to help or hurt results. Companies that are struggling to make agile work are likely to wonder: Is the problem with us, or are other companies also having similar problems with agile approaches? Bain & Company ...
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