"97% of respondents said they practice agile in their organization"
Yeah, they all SAY they practice agile, but a lot of them practice waterfall with agile naming conventions.
Yeah, they all SAY they practice agile, but a lot of them practice waterfall with agile naming conventions.
Saying that "97% of organizations practice agile development methods" makes it sound like it's overwhelmingly dominant, but it's not even possible to tell from these responses if a plurality of the teams who responded to a "State of Agile survey" use it, or what the most common development methodology is.
This is exactly the sort of contextless figure that you'll find torn apart in "How to Lie with Statistics".
> "JavaScript is more popular than ever, and over 69% of developers use JavaScript
Does anyone really believe that StackOverflow surveys gather a representative sample of all developers? This same survey found that 1 in 6 developers target the Raspberry Pi (more than iOS), and 7.5% use assembly language (more than Go, Objective-C, or VB.NET). It's an interesting survey but take it with a grain of salt.
Startup I'm working at right now told me "Agile" is overkill for us. But ironically it's more iterative then any company I worked before that did sprints.
What does this mean/did they mean by this?