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Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations (sdtimes.com)
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The 12th annual "State of Agile" report has just been released by CollabNet VersionOne, which calls it "the largest and longest-running Agile survey in the world." After surveying more than 1,400 software professionals in various roles and industries over the last four months of 2017, "Only 12% percent responded that their organizations have a high level of competency with agile practices across the organization, and only 4% report that agile practices are enabling greater adaptability to market conditions... The three most significant challenges to agile adoption and scaling are reported as organizational culture at odds with agile values (53%), general organizational resistance to change (46%), and Inadequate management support and sponsorship (42%)...
"The encouraging news is that 59% recognize that they are still maturing, indicating that they do not intend to plateau where they are." And agile adoption does appear to be growing. "25% of the respondents say that all or almost all of their teams are agile, whereas only 8% reported that in 2016."
The researchers also note "the recognized necessity of accelerating the speed of delivery of high-quality software, and the emphasis on customer satisfaction," with 71% of the survey respondents reporting that a DevOps initiative is underway or planned for the next 12 months.
"The encouraging news is that 59% recognize that they are still maturing, indicating that they do not intend to plateau where they are." And agile adoption does appear to be growing. "25% of the respondents say that all or almost all of their teams are agile, whereas only 8% reported that in 2016."
The researchers also note "the recognized necessity of accelerating the speed of delivery of high-quality software, and the emphasis on customer satisfaction," with 71% of the survey respondents reporting that a DevOps initiative is underway or planned for the next 12 months.
in short this is about energy, who owns it and who controls it. It is also about the May 2018 launch of the Petroyuan. Back in WWII most European nations sent their gold reserves to the USA for safe keeping, USA capitalized on this and war debts and became a Gold backed reserve currency. This worked until there was too many dollars in circulation so Glass-Steagal was ammended and $ no longer Gold backed hence Petrodollar - now oil backed. So the question is:
What happens when the world can buy goods directly from China and exchange oil/LPG for those goods? What does the USA (with a trade deficit of $566Billion and National Debt of $20 Trillion) get out of that when far fewer nations need dollars (and dollar fees/interest rates & US banks) to make those exchanges? Do people switch to Hong Kong instead of Wall St? How does USA make up from any cash shortfall?
The main reason of the USA standing armies becomes clear, The oil police, client states, shipping lanes, wellheads and seperating interlopers. The FED the WB the IMF the BIS demand this action. Ruling Power at all costs.