Press Release
18 August 2011 - Bangalore
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 in partnership with CIOL 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 global consultancy noted for its experience and expertise 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.
Talking about ThoughtWorks recently opening its doors to the Indian market, Preethi Madhu, Head of Consulting Practices - ThoughtWorks India, said, "Change like the kind we talk about involves organisations changing their mindsets and leadership styles, while relooking at driving value. At ThoughtWorks, our
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.
Talking about ThoughtWorks recently opening its doors to the Indian market, Preethi Madhu, Head of Consulting Practices - ThoughtWorks India, said, "Change like the kind we talk about involves organisations changing their mindsets and leadership styles, while relooking at driving value. At ThoughtWorks, our
experience places us in a unique situation to work with leaders and help them understand the scope and impact of the change, while partnering with them in putting the required framework in place and helping to implement the same."
Talking about her experience working with ThoughtWorks, Rama Jayanti, VP Engineering (ETI) Emptoris, Inc. stated, "Faster time-to-market, improvement in quality and increased ability to respond to change were the key drivers for us to embrace Agile. ThoughtWorks’ extensive experience in Agile methods and their ability to apply this experience to our Product Development context helped us define our first Agile implementation and successfully execute the same. Partnering with the ThoughtWorks India Consulting team has resulted in a faster cycle time for delivery, and it has also improved collaboration across the business and product development teams."
Key Statistics
770 IT practitioners and executives from 330 organisations across India participated in the survey. They were asked about their reasons for moving to Agile, the specific Agile practices that are being used, what benefits are being realised, and factors that hindered adoption. Respondents came from a cross-section of Domestic Industry, Indian multinationals, Foreign multinational operations in India, and Government and Public Sector organisations. Of the 330 companies that participated, IT services companies topped the list, comprising 55% of the mix, followed by IT products companies (49%), manufacturing (21%), ITES, financial services, telecom, and others.
To read the full report, visit www.thoughtworks.com/agile-adoption-india-survey-report-2011
Talking about her experience working with ThoughtWorks, Rama Jayanti, VP Engineering (ETI) Emptoris, Inc. stated, "Faster time-to-market, improvement in quality and increased ability to respond to change were the key drivers for us to embrace Agile. ThoughtWorks’ extensive experience in Agile methods and their ability to apply this experience to our Product Development context helped us define our first Agile implementation and successfully execute the same. Partnering with the ThoughtWorks India Consulting team has resulted in a faster cycle time for delivery, and it has also improved collaboration across the business and product development teams."
Key Statistics
770 IT practitioners and executives from 330 organisations across India participated in the survey. They were asked about their reasons for moving to Agile, the specific Agile practices that are being used, what benefits are being realised, and factors that hindered adoption. Respondents came from a cross-section of Domestic Industry, Indian multinationals, Foreign multinational operations in India, and Government and Public Sector organisations. Of the 330 companies that participated, IT services companies topped the list, comprising 55% of the mix, followed by IT products companies (49%), manufacturing (21%), ITES, financial services, telecom, and others.
To read the full report, visit www.thoughtworks.com/agile-adoption-india-survey-report-2011
About ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks, Inc. is a global IT consultancy providing Agile-based systems development, consulting and transformation services to Global 1,000 companies. It has pioneered many of the most advanced and successful Agile methods and best practices used in the industry today. At its core, ThoughtWorks helps CIOs maximise investment performance across a portfolio of complex, business-critical applications, while reducing time and risk. Its products division, ThoughtWorks Studios, offers tools to manage the entire Agile development lifecycle through its Adaptive ALM solution, comprised of Mingle®, GoTM and Twist®. ThoughtWorks employs 1,600 professionals to serve clients from offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.