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Global IT consultancy and Agile pioneer, ThoughtWorks, Inc, today announced the results of their recently conducted “Agile Adoption in India Survey - 2011”. The survey was carried out earlier this year to understand the Agile adoption trends in business and IT in India. The survey captured responses from 770 IT practitioners and executives from 330 organisations across the country. As a consultancy noted for its experience with Agile software development, ThoughtWorks was keen to understand the patterns, successes and issues that companies in India experience as they make the transition to this more collaborative and adaptive method of developing software.
The survey results provided some key insights into Agile adoption trends in India. Most organisations following the Agile methodology experienced significantly faster time-to-market of 68%, with 68% more adaptability to changing requirements from clients and improved IT productivity and quality, which led to a better ROI of 60%, and an increased project visibility of 60%. Key areas of concern when adopting Agile included internal IT opposition (53%) followed by insufficient expertise, in both coaching and leadership (41%) and difficulty in finding engineering talent (36%).
Of the respondents, 39% had moderate experience working on Agile practices, while 14% affirmed being experts; 84% who were early champions of Agile belonged to the management and executive level, while 44% worked in organisations using Agile practices in some projects. It was interesting to note that the maximum number of respondents came from Indian and foreign MNCs.
“The market for Agile is growing rapidly in India. Through our survey, we wanted to gain a deeper insight into the current Agile usage, benefits, trends, and challenges faced by CEOs and CIOs in Indian organisations. The results showed that progress towards Agile is being made, but that adoption must be carefully managed to introduce and embed all relevant practices, otherwise anticipated benefits might not be realised,” said Sudhir Tiwari, Managing Director, ThoughtWorks India.
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