Agile software development methods emerged over a decade ago. Many skeptics believed that these methods will fade away similar to many other software engineering innovations over the past 30 years. After ten years of application of agile methods in various industrial settings, it has become apparent that agile methods are being applied in large and small organizations alike almost context independently. While standardization of agile methods has proven to be a challenge it has not hindered the growing adoption rate. This talk will take the measurement viewpoint to agile development, present some concrete numbers arising from agile teams and products, and argue that the transparency inherently built-in to agile system enables new types of measures to improve the ability to coordinate development endeavors.

About Pekka Abrahamsson:

Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson is a full professor of Computer Science in University of Helsinki. He has researched agile development since 2002 and published actively in the area. He has lead large European wide research project aiming at developing solutions for agile embedded systems development and scaling agile development to hundreds and thousands of developers. He received the Nokia foundation award in 2007 for his achievements as a software researcher. His 22MEUR AGILE-ITEA project was awarded a ITEA Achivement Award (Silver) for outstanding industrial and scientific impact. He is currently the academic coordinator of a 60MEUR Cloud Software research program, which in part aims at taking agile development to the next level.