A recent SD Times article, in which twenty agile experts were interviewed, found that most software development teams are accepting agile principles as development best practices, even if they are not going agile themselves. This change in the way that software development operates is beginning to change "every aspect of how software is produced," according to the article. While the article states that there is no empirical proof of agile's claims of better software, faster, they did find a good deal of anecdotal evidence that agile methodologies, including Scrum, have worked well for many organizations:

"Ray Goodman, a senior vice president for inventory software developer Direct Tech, said Scrum has reduced development cycles from six months to about three or four—not counting one pre-Scrum project that took two years," SD Times reports.

"Ken Judy, vice president of software development for Oxygen Media, reported that [their variant of Scrum and XP] has 'made our work more innovative, maintainable and predictable,'" SD Times cites as further anecdotal evidence of organizations reporting success with agile.

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posted by Rebecca T. Traeger (14 Mar 08)