Succeeding with Agile

Agile: EF

Krebs, the originator of the Shodan Adherence Survey, and his colleagues at IBM have also introduced additional approaches to assessing how well agile teams are doing. Most notable among these is the Agile Evaluation Framework, or Agile:EF (Krebs and Kroll 2008). The Agile:EF takes to heart the agile advice to keep things simple and is therefore less of an actual framework than a process for assessing teams.

In this approach, Krebs and coauthor Per Kroll suggest having team members complete a very short questionnaire, perhaps as often as the end of every sprint. Questions are kept shorter than in the Shodan survey. But, as in that approach, each question concerns one agile practice. Each question is answered with a score from 1–10, ...