Is Demand for Agile Services Declining?

Learn more about trends in demand for agile to see if the demand for agile services was going up, going down, or staying flat. Or perhaps we cannot tell.

Last month I wrote about the high-profile firings of agile coaches, why that might occur, and what Agile professionals might do to protect themselves from sudden firing. I received a lot of feedback including a thought-provoking article from Nomad8 called The Decline of the A Word.

It got me to thinking, have we reached the Jump the Shark phase of agile adoption?

So I decided to gather whatever data I could find to see if the demand for agile services was going up, going down, or staying flat. Or perhaps we cannot tell.

Is There a Trend in Demand?

To be honest, there isn’t a lot of great data on agile demand. There is certainly anecdotal evidence on LinkedIn and the term #postagile has been trending for a few years. But I wanted to scour all the information sources I could find to see what I could learn.

There is a sketchy looking advertisement I see sometimes for a publication called: Enterprise Agile Transformation Services Market Size, Growth, Trends and Insights to 2029. Which…