Agile at Scale Survey 2020

Thank you in advance for sharing your feedback for our 3rd annual Agile at Scale survey. Your responses are voluntary and will remain strictly confidential.

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* 1. Please fill out the form below with your information so that we may send you the report once published.

First Name:

Last Name:

Company:

Job Title:

ZIP/Postal Code:

Country:

Email Address:

Phone Number:

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* 2. Please let us know which title you best identify with:

C-Level

VP-Level

Director-Level

Manager

Team Lead

Team Member

Program Manager

Project Manager

Product Manager

Release Train Engineer (RTE)

Product Owner

ScrumMaster

Agile COE Leader

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* 3. What Agile at Scale framework are you using or considering for your organization?

SAFe

LeSS

DaD

Nexus

Scrum@Scale

Spotify Model

Flex

Enterprise Scrum

Only use Scrum

Custom

None

Not Sure

Other (please specify)

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* 4. On a scale of 1 to 7, select which number best identifies your basic understanding of what scaling agile in your organization means. (1-no understanding; 7-very strong understanding)

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* 5. What might be the KEY reason preventing you from adopting a formalized scaling framework/process (e.g. SAFe)?

Time

Budget

Headcount

Lack of general understanding

Other in-flight strategic initiatives

Lack of executive support

Not necessary in our organization

I'm not sure

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What are the top 3 benefits you desire in scaling Agile?

Visibility

Agility

Alignment

Planning

Predictability

Metrics

Better quality

Business value

Integration of software and hardware teams

Morale improvement / employee engagement

Better manage distributed teams

Other (please specify)

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* 7. How long had your organization been using OR implementing Agile development practices before deciding to scale?

0-1 year

1-3 years

3-5 years

5+ years

We haven't scaled yet

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* 8. If you have scaled Agile, how long has it been since you started your scaling journey?

Less than a year

1-3 years

3-5 years

5 years or more

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* 9. Select the top 5 benefits your Agile at Scale framework has provided your organization?

Visibility

Agility

Alignment

Planning

Predictability

Metrics

Better quality

Integration of software and hardware teams

Business value

Morale improvement / employee engagement

Better manage distributed teams

Further accelerate product delivery

Governance framework

Better adherence to compliance

Other (please specify)

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* 10. How has your Agile at Scale framework helped you with the following: (1-not confident; 5-confident)

	1	2	3	4	5
Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 1	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 2	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 3	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 4	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 5
Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 1	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 2	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 3	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 4	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 5
Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 1	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 2	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 3	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 4	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 5
Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 1	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 2	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 3	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 4	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 5
Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 1	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 2	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 3	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 4	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 5
Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my team’s output	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my team’s output 1	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my team’s output 2	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my team’s output 3	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my team’s output 4	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my team’s output 5
Increased ability to manage distributed teams	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 1	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 2	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 3	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 4	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 5
Increased agile adoption	Increased agile adoption 1	Increased agile adoption 2	Increased agile adoption 3	Increased agile adoption 4	Increased agile adoption 5
Building better alignment with other departments and teams	Building better alignment with other departments and teams 1	Building better alignment with other departments and teams 2	Building better alignment with other departments and teams 3	Building better alignment with other departments and teams 4	Building better alignment with other departments and teams 5
Building a better plan for building out our roadmap	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 1	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 2	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 3	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 4	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 5
Building a better plan for building out our timelines	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 1	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 2	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 3	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 4	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 5
Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 1	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 2	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 3	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 4	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 5
Established a governance framework	Established a governance framework 1	Established a governance framework 2	Established a governance framework 3	Established a governance framework 4	Established a governance framework 5

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* 11. What agile lifecycle management tool(s) are you using to support your Agile at Scale framework (select as many as necessary)?

Atlassian Jira Align

Innotas

Jira/Confluence (Atlassian)

Leankit

Microsoft ADO

Microsoft Azure DevOps Server

Pivotal

Primavera

Rally (CA)

ServiceNow

Targetprocess

VersionOne/Collabnet

Spreadsheets

Google Docs

Other (please specify)

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* 12. How confident are you that your lifecycle management tool(s) has helped you with the following? (1-not confident; 5-confident)

	1	2	3	4	5
Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 1	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 2	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 3	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 4	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' reports 5
Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 1	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 2	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 3	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 4	Gaining better visibility into all my teams' processes 5
Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 1	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 2	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 3	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 4	Gaining better agility when the end user's requirements change 5
Increased ability to manage distributed teams	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 1	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 2	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 3	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 4	Increased ability to manage distributed teams 5
Develop a better alignment with other departments and teams	Develop a better alignment with other departments and teams 1	Develop a better alignment with other departments and teams 2	Develop a better alignment with other departments and teams 3	Develop a better alignment with other departments and teams 4	Develop a better alignment with other departments and teams 5
Building a better plan for building out our roadmap	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 1	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 2	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 3	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 4	Building a better plan for building out our roadmap 5
Building a better plan for building out our timelines	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 1	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 2	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 3	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 4	Building a better plan for building out our timelines 5
Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 1	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 2	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 3	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 4	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' quality of output 5
Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 1	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 2	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 3	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 4	Gaining better predictability of all my teams' ability to hit deadlines 5
Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 1	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 2	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 3	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 4	Identifying what metrics each of my teams needs to report on 5
Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my teams' output	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my teams' output 1	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my teams' output 2	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my teams' output 3	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my teams' output 4	Gaining a better understanding of what dependencies impact my teams' output 5

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* 13. What are the top 3 factors contributing to successfully integrating your Agile processes with your lifecycle management tool(s)?

Executive/Stakeholder support

Internal tooling expertise

External tooling expertise

Team preference for specific tooling

Internal Agile expertise

External Agile expertise

Agile culture

Internal resource availability

External resource availability

Organizational alignment

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* 14. What are the top 3 factors contributing to the lack of integration between your Agile processes with your lifecycle management (tool)s?

Executive/Stakeholder support

Internal tooling expertise

External tooling expertise

Team preference for specific tooling

Internal Agile expertise

External Agile expertise

Agile culture

Internal resource availability

External resource availability

Organizational alignment

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* 15. Is your organization using full-stack tooling or separate tools?

Full Stack

Separate Tools

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* 16. Please rank the following four areas of metrics that your organization relies on to indicate performance of your Agile at Scale initiative (from most used to least used):

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* 17. Select the top 3 roadblocks that have impacted or are impacting your ability to scale Agile?

Lack of experience with Agile

Company culture

Lack of executive / management support

Broader organizational or communications problem

Insufficient training

Insufficient budget

Unwillingness of other functional groups to follow agile

Not enough personnel with the necessary agile experience

Pre-existing rigid / waterfall framework

Regulatory compliance

Perceived time and cost to make the transition

Lack of tools or insufficient tools to support scaling efforts

I’m not sure

Other (please specify)

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* 18. How important is completing each step below related to making Scaling Agile a success (1-not at all important; 5-critically important)

	1	2	3	4	5
Executive sponsorship	Executive sponsorship 1	Executive sponsorship 2	Executive sponsorship 3	Executive sponsorship 4	Executive sponsorship 5
Agile consultants or trainers	Agile consultants or trainers 1	Agile consultants or trainers 2	Agile consultants or trainers 3	Agile consultants or trainers 4	Agile consultants or trainers 5
Consistency across processes and practices	Consistency across processes and practices 1	Consistency across processes and practices 2	Consistency across processes and practices 3	Consistency across processes and practices 4	Consistency across processes and practices 5
Implementation of a set of common tools	Implementation of a set of common tools 1	Implementation of a set of common tools 2	Implementation of a set of common tools 3	Implementation of a set of common tools 4	Implementation of a set of common tools 5
Internal agile support team	Internal agile support team 1	Internal agile support team 2	Internal agile support team 3	Internal agile support team 4	Internal agile support team 5
Agile at Scale Framework	Agile at Scale Framework 1	Agile at Scale Framework 2	Agile at Scale Framework 3	Agile at Scale Framework 4	Agile at Scale Framework 5
DevOps practices and culture	DevOps practices and culture 1	DevOps practices and culture 2	DevOps practices and culture 3	DevOps practices and culture 4	DevOps practices and culture 5
Willingness by your existing culture	Willingness by your existing culture 1	Willingness by your existing culture 2	Willingness by your existing culture 3	Willingness by your existing culture 4	Willingness by your existing culture 5

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* 19. At what level(s) has your organization scaled Agile?

Program: 4-15 teams

Value Stream: Entire development of a product line representing concept-to-cash

Portfolio: More than 2 product lines

Enterprise-wide: Whole development / product organizations scaling Agile

Other (please specify)

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* 20. How many people are in your development organization (includes engineering, PMO, ScrumMasters, Product)?

50 and below

51-100

101-500

501-1000

1001+

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* 21. How many teams do you typically have within your initiatives?

4-6

7-9

10-14

15+

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* 22. How far are you with integrating your scaling agile efforts with DevOps initiatives and other engineering/technical automation projects?

Haven't considered it

Want to do it, but haven't started

Just starting

In flight

Well integrated

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* 23. How important do you rank DevOps towards being able to effectively scale your operations?

Not important

Somewhat important

Neutral

Important

Very important

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* 24. What were / are the top 3 factors you considered when selecting your approach and framework to scale Agile?

Access to public knowledge, strong global community of users for the framework

Access to professional service firms that can guide the transformation with selected framework

Existing internal company knowledge of the framework

Proven and published industry standards, best practices, case studies for the framework

Flexibility of the framework

Training availability on the framework

Available certifications for the framework

How the framework mirrors existing organizational structure

How the framework mirrors existing agile lifecycle management tool(s) and DevOps tool(s)

Available agile lifecycle management tool(s) that support framework out-of-the-box

Costs of the transformation with the different frameworks

Simplicity of the framework

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* 25. What DevOps tools are you using to help automate your technical practices in conjunction with your scaling agile efforts (select as many a necessary)

Ansible

AppDynamics

Artifactory

AWS

Azure

Bamboo

Bitbucket

Chef

Docker

Elastico

Github/Gitlab

Google Cloud

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Nexus

New Relic

Pivotal

Puppet

QA Symphony

SonarQube

Sonatype

Splunk

TestRail

Zephyr

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* 26. What industry does your organization belong in?

Education

Energy

Financial Services

Government

Healthcare & Pharma

Industrial / Manufacturing

Insurance

Media / Entertainment

Non-profit

Retail

Software

Telecommunications

Other (please specify)