A Survey of Early Adopters of Agile Methods in Thailand

Abstract

For immediate and sustainable improvement, it is important to continually investigate the current usage of agile methods in several aspects. This study presents the findings of the current usage of agile methods in Thailand, which aims at providing a clearer picture for future directions in agile software development. Data were collected through online questionnaires from 63 agile practitioners during October 2012 to March 2013. The results reveal that Scrum and whole team are the most favorite used method and process; whereas personal interest and enterprise or team culture are key drivers of agile adoption and agile use, respectively. Inadequate training is a key impediment; while limited support for distributed development environment is the most critical limitation. Surprisingly, knowledge transfer is perceived as being potentially more important than improved software quality. Time is the most utilized as one of project evaluation criteria. Besides, a minority of respondents’ organizations provided internal and external training courses to software development teams. In a nutshell, the results of this study have a great similarity with prior survey results.