Agile development has been spreading to larger teams, with 100 to 1,000 people working on dozens of projects, Holler said. Previously, teams of about 20 to 100 developers used the product.

"The biggest change that we've seen, especially in the last year, is a transition from medium-sized teams to large enterprise divisions or larger developer organizations or distributed development organizations," Holler said.

Agile development is being used to accelerate time to market for applications, to boost quality, to provide visibility into the development process, and to align the goals of IT and business, Holler said.

Recently, at the SD West 2006 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., author Steve McConnell suggested agile software development has not fulfilled its promise. But Holler said he had seen indications otherwise.