Agile software development and the factors that drive success, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HP

Examine how the most successful firms use both Agile software development and traditional application development habits, how successful they have been using those methods & how success is measured within their company. From the key recommendations in this study, business leaders can determine how to best implement Agile without falling into problems with execution and scale.

This Forrester study surveyed 112 IT professionals and determined that as software development teams continue to seek improvement, Agile methods provide techniques to assist the best firms to be better. However, each Firm’s implementation of Agile tenets required additional steps often including story points, sprints, and continual delivery. Additionally, Agile is a steppingstone on the path to increasing business agility measured through the “iron-triangle” of on-time, on-budget, and on-scope.