The Agile Consultant: Guiding Clients to Enterprise Agility

© Rick Freedman 2016

Rick Freedman, The Agile Consultant, 10.1007/978-1-4302-6053-0_2

2. Agile Evolution: More Than Methodology

Rick Freedman¹ 

(1)Lenexa, Kansas, USA

For the past ten years, VersionOne software , a provider of agile project tools, has performed a “State of Agile”¹ survey. In 2009, the survey listed “management opposed to change,” “loss of management control,” “team opposed to change,” and “lack of discipline” as top challenges to agile adoption. In the ninth survey, five years later, top barriers to adoption are “lack of management support,” “company philosophy at odds with agile,” “external pressure to follow traditional waterfall processes,” and “a broader organizational or communication issue.” After five years of widespread adoption, ...