Succeeding with Agile

Shodan Adherence Survey

One of the earliest assessment approaches and one that continues to have merit is Bill Krebs’ Shodan¹ Adherence Survey (Williams, Layman, and Krebs 2004). Krebs’ approach is a self-administered survey of 15 questions, which cover the spectrum of the Extreme Programming practices. An example question is shown in Table 21.1. As you can see, each question includes a brief description and a list of facts that would be true of a team fully following the practice. Questions were answered on a scale from 0 (“disagree with using this practice”) to 10 (“fanatical about this practice”).

1 Shodan is Japanese for “first degree.” It is commonly used in martial arts to refer to someone who has earned the lowest black belt and by Go ...