A Comprehensive Evaluation of Agile Maturity Self-assessment Surveys Ozan Raşit Yürüm 1(&) , Onur Demirörs 2,3 , and Fethi Rabhi 3 1 Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey oyurum@metu.edu.tr 2 Department of Computer Engineering, İzmir Institute of Technology, İzmir, Turkey onurdemirors@iyte.edu.tr 3 School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia f.rabhi@unsw.edu.au Abstract. Agile methodologies are adapted by growing number of software organizations. Agile maturity (also called agility) assessment is a way to ascertain the degree of this adoption and determine a course of action to improve agile maturity. There are a number of agile maturity assessment surveys in order to assess team or organization agility and many of them require no guidance. However, the usability of these surveys are not widely studied. The purpose of this study is to determine available agile maturity self-assessment surveys and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses for agile maturity assessment. An extensive case study is conducted to measure the suf ficiency of 22 available agile maturity self-assessment surveys according to the seven expected features: comprehensiveness, fitness for purpose, discriminativeness, objectivity, con- ciseness, generalizability, and suitability for multiple assessment. Our case study results show that they do not satisfy all of the expected features fully but are helpful in some degree based on the purpose of usage. Keywords: Agility assessment Á Agility surveys Agile maturity self-assessment Á Agile maturity self-assessment surveys Self-assessment 1 Introduction As traditional development approaches did not produce the desired effects [1, 2] agile approaches became popular [3] specifically in largely growing SMEs [4]. This popu- larity has also increased the coverage and depth of agile methodologies in line with the agile manifesto [5]. Today, there are different agile software development methods, proposing different ways of achieving agile values and principles. The most popular O. R. Yürüm—This study has been supported by Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Project 113E528. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 I. Stamelos et al. (Eds.): SPICE 2018, CCIS 918, pp. 300–315, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00623-5_21