A Perspective from Large vs Small Companies Adoption of Agile Methodologies

To offer a perspective from large versus small companies' adoption of Agile Methodologies we performed a study in which we discussed and analyzed the answers of 31 interviewees from 14 companies. We carefully selected the data set to be representative for all the actors in the market from the company's size, business model, role balance, and gender balance. We found out that most of the companies adopted the Agile methodologies in a more or less extensive manner. By far, the most used ceremony was daily meetings, other ceremonies were sometimes merged or removed from the methodology implementation. We also investigate how companies adopted the Agile mindset by analyzing how the Agile Manifesto was implemented in these companies, even if it was not in the scope of our study. From a scientific point of view, this study contributes from a methodological perspective to a better understanding of Agile adoption in different types of companies and of the challenges related to Agile practices and processes. For practitioners, the results presented in this paper offer evaluation means and solutions for Agile adoption.