Succeeding with Agile

Creating Your Own Assessment

Some organizations choose to create their own assessments. Doing so requires more work, of course, but it brings the advantage of being able to fully tailor the assessment. Organizations with large Scrum initiatives such as Ultimate Software, JDA Software, Yahoo!, and Salesforce.com have pursued this approach. If you take this route, by all means start by looking at the questions in approaches such as the Shodan Adherence Survey and the Comparative Agility assessment. Discard any questions that are irrelevant in your organization or that will not provide interesting results. If, for example, automated testing is an established practice and one that all teams already do well, you can save time by dropping those questions. ...