39%
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007The latest Agile Chronicles Newsletter email edition offered me the option of downloading the second Annual “State of Agile Development” survey. Seventeen hundred individuals responded to a boatload of questions from VersionOne. In response to the question, “Which of the following practices do you employ within your Agile methods? (check all that apply)”, thirty-nine percent checked “retrospectives.” 39%!
Imagine my dismay. 
I didn’t expect that every Agile team would hold retrospectives. I’m not sure there’s any practice that every team employs. However, as I’ve said in an earlier post, retrospectives serve a critical role in developing and sustaining Agile teams and projects.
So, to the other 61% of you, what are you waiting for?
September 13th, 2007 at 10:36 am
[…] Diana Larsen points to an interesting statistic — in a recent agile survey, only 39% of survey participants said that they do retrospectives. Given that retrospectives are a cornerstone of improving the process, it is surprising that so few do them. Retrospectives are important because its the way teams evolve the process for their project. […]