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XP 2.0. Agile engineering practices will gain traction as teams and organizations that have implemented Scrum work on increasing code quality. Practices like Test Driven Development, Automated Build and Test, and Continuous Integration will see wider acceptance. Several years after its initial surfacing, software craftsmanship (seehttp://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/) will gain in momentum.
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Agile 2.0. Teams and organizations that have been practicing Scrum for 3 years or more will extend to hybrids like ScrumBan, Scrum/XP and even ScrumFall (if they lose executive sponsorship and are forced to backslide towards Waterfall). Kanban will continue to gain in momentum and mindshare.
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Business 2.0. More small to medium-sized companies will initiate enterprise-wide transformations, using Agile development principles in concert with Lean business process improvement in an attempt to transform their businesses in today’s harsh economic climate.
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Agile Failure 1.0. There will be more failures in agile adoption, as organizations attempt to drive the agile practices without fully understanding the agile principles; or simply jump onto the agile bandwagon and continue to practice waterfall (or whatever) while calling it agile.