Table 9 Spearman’s correlation between Perceived Benefits adopting Agile, Company Size, and Experience

Company size [1]

Company experience [2]

0.30***

Visibility [3]

0.21***

0.33***

Productivity [4]

0.10*

0.29***

0.67***

Quality [5]

0.11*

0.32***

0.68***

0.76***

Cost [6]

0.12**

0.31***

0.58***

0.71***

0.67***

Simplify development [7]

0.12*

0.29***

0.64***

0.72***

0.70***

0.68***

Engineering discipline [8]

0.12*

0.27***

0.65***

0.68***

0.70***

0.62***

0.70***

Team morale [9]

0.16***

0.28***

0.68***

0.72***

0.70***

0.61***

0.70***

0.72***

Change management [10]

0.21***

0.35***

0.71***

0.69***

0.67***

0.65***

0.69***

0.66***

0.76***

Time-to-market [11]

0.16***

0.31***

0.65***

0.67***

0.60***

0.70***

0.67***

0.64***

0.68***

0.73***

Risk management [12]

0.16***

0.33***

0.66***

0.69***

0.69***

0.63***

0.66***

0.67***

0.69***

0.71***

0.66***

Distributed teamwork [13]

0.17***

0.27***

0.46***

0.44***

0.48***

0.56***

0.48***

0.50***

0.46***

0.47***

0.49***

0.51***

Business and IT alignment [14]

0.21***

0.35***

0.65***

0.65***

0.67***

0.62***

0.65***

0.65***

0.65***

0.72***

0.67***

0.72***

0.54***

Maintainability [15]

0.06

0.29***

0.64***

0.73***

0.78***

0.67***

0.70***

0.72***

0.68***

0.66***

0.62***

0.68***

0.53***

0.72***