I did a study of release duration at Citrix Online to see whether our adoption of Scrum and Enterprise Scrum (something we developed to manage project portfolio

I did a study of release duration at Citrix Online to see whether our adoption of Scrum and Enterprise Scrum (something we developed to manage project portfolios) was working. You can see it here: http://senexrex.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Release-Duration-Greening-HICSS-2013.pdf http://senexrex.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Release-Durat... It shows that agile reduced the shipping duration of projects from 24-42 months to around 4 months. During that time Citrix Online's market share increased. It's going to be hard to get the side-by-side comparisons you seek, and, sure, it could be that the agile-focused management happened to also be competent (hey, I'll accept that. :)). However, I actually think Scrum specifically is a science that measures production, and that its outcomes are usually pretty good. Since I've now helped convert a couple of huge enterprises to Scrum, and since I love tracking data about those conversions (and it's good), I make money in this field. So you could say I'm a flogger of the religion. At the same time, I have a computer science PhD and I could be out wrangling code or running a startup. And you are right, there are a bunch of religious zealouts out there. They annoy me too. Dan Greening dan@senexrex.com http://senexrex.com http://senexrex.com