What does Agile Smell Like? I tried to answer that question back in 2006 when I worked at RedMonk in the form of a PDF.

This guide helps you sniff test how Agile an organization is. A “sniff test” is a quick way to establish a gut-feel about something. It helps you determine what to do next.

RedMonk doesn’t really publish “reports” like this, but they were still doing some way back then, especially when a client asked for one. We were so progressive back then and published it under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.

What is a platform and how do you do platform engineering at scale? Find out in this interview on tales from Home Depot and beyond.

There’s probably around 50 million developers world-wide, and 20.5m professional developers. That’s what I’d start saying after seeing a chart from IDC’s September 2025 developer study update. They forecast it to be ~59 million in 2029. If you want to be very precise, a breakdown of the survey puts “professional developers” at around 20.8m in 2025. But even that includes “DevOps professionals” and “platform engineers.” So, to me, that’s something more like 20.5m or even 20m developers.

Compare that to GitHub’s claim that there are at least 180 million developers, just GitHub account holders.

Also, see more numbers in previous round up, from July, 2023

“If you already have zero enterprise apps in Python, that remains the right number and Gen AI should not change that at all.” Rod Johnson, October, 2025.

Only three kinds of AI products actually work - “For my money, the current multi-billion-dollar question is can AI agents be useful for tasks other than coding?” // Good thinking about productizing AI: what seems to work and not work.