Although agile software development methods can be used with any programming paradigm or language in practice, they were originally closely associated with object-oriented environments such as Smalltalk, Lisp and later Java, C#. The initial adopters of agile methods were usually small to medium-sized teams working on unprecedented systems with requirements that were difficult to finalize and likely to change as the system was being developed. Now, 61% of organizations use agile for software development and digital transformation.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-10 |title=42+ Most Important Agile Statistics for 2024 |url=https://radixweb.com/blog/agile-statistics |access-date=2025-08-13 |website=Radixweb |language=en}}</ref> This section describes common problems that organizations encounter when they try to adopt agile software development methods as well as various techniques to measure the quality and performance of agile teams.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beck|first1=Kent|title=Extreme Programming Explained|date=2000|publisher=Addison-Wesley|isbn=978-0201616415|pages=[https://archive.org/details/extremeprogrammi00beck/page/1 1–24]|url=https://archive.org/details/extremeprogrammi00beck/page/1}}</ref>
