Journal of Internet Computing and Services(JICS) 2015. Oct.: 16(5): 87-92 87 A Survey-based Analysis of Agile Adoption on Performances of IT Organizations ☆ Imran Ghani 1* 1 Mannir Bello 1 Idris Lawal Bagiwa 1 ABSTRACT Numerous IT organizations and companies around the world aspire to improve the efficiency and general standard of their software development. The IT organizations want to seize the opportunities and take advantages of new development processes and methodologies. These advantages include higher customers’ satisfaction and better software quality among many. In order to achieve them, different agile software methodologies such as scrum, Feature driven development, eXtremeProgramming (XP), Dynamic system development method, Kanban and others have been frequently adopted by IT organizations across the world. Several studies have shown that agile software development methods are effective in a lot of settings. This study, in which 40 agile practitioners from Malaysia participated, additionally confirms the effectiveness of agile development methods. Furthermore, this paper presents some of the critical barriers not well-known by IT-organizations. The results of this analysis can be used to guide IT organization from the obstacles they may face while adopting agile in their environments. ☞ keyword : Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), DSDM, FDD, Kanban, Agile Adoption 1. Introduction Agile software development method is relatively a newly formed upcoming field of software engineering[1]. Agile is define as iterative and incremental software development approach which is performed in a very high collaborative way within an effective framework that can produce a very high qualitative software to meet continues changing requirements of customers within prescribe time [2]. Traditionally waterfall process has been used to develop software by small and big companies. However, now, agile development methods are considered as more reliable and reasonable methods to develop, maintain, and support software systems worldwide [3]. The agility is now becoming a buzz word in today’s world. There are several agile development methods such as Scrum, eXtreme Programming (XP), Featured Driven Development (FDD), Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM) and Kanban [4][7][8][9][10]. Scrum, FDD and DSDM are planning-based 1 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, 81310, Johor, Malaysia * Corresponding author (imran@utm.my) [Received 26 May 2015, Reviewed 2 June 2015, Accepted 2 October 2015] ☆ A preliminary version of this paper was presented at ICONI 2014 and was selected as an outstanding paper. methods. XP is a practice-based method. Kanban is used as a hybrid method including planning-based and practice-based approaches. Some IT organizations only use planning-based method, some use practice-based approaches. Some other use hybrid approaches. This research attempted to analyze the impact on the effectiveness of agile adoption (including these agile methodologies) on the performance of IT organizations. Agile software development method’s with their characteristics those are fast development, dynamic, lightweight process, alert and nimble to changes are better development methods if compared to the traditional approach that is waterfall model [2][11][12][13]. However, in the current work we move ahead and try to find out barriers that have impact on the performance of IT organizations using agile methodologies such as Scrum, FDD, DSDM, XP and Kanban. This research also discusses which agile model is mostly adopted and which one is least adopted. Next section discusses barriers to further agile adoption in organizations. 2. BARRIERS TO FURTHER AGILE ADOPTION IN ORGANIZATIONS 2008 Rico [5] Figure 1 presents barriers to further agile adoption in 2008. It shows that changing of organizational culture was ISSN 1598-0170 (Print) ISSN 2287-1136 (Online) http://www.jksii.or.kr http://dx.doi.org/10.7472/jksii.2015.16.5.87