Challenge a Recent Study Claiming “268% higher failure rates for Agile Software Projects”
The reason is that most of those were practising fake Agile. Real Agile software projects, with robust automated end-to-end UI regression testing, achieve nearly 100% success rates and save both time and money.
10 min readJul 2, 2024
I have come across posts on Reddit and LinkedIn referencing a study that claims “268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects,” but I have chosen to disregard them.
Today, I saw an article on the reputable site The Register and felt compelled to provide some clarification based on my ~20 years of experience in agile development (clients and my own).
Table of Contents:
· About the Study
· Why do Fake Agile Software Projects (without solid E2E Test Automation) fail?
∘ 1. “The benefits of specification”
∘ 2. “Agile causing delivery not to be on time”
∘ 3…
