What the 2022 China Agile Practice Whitepaper Reveals About Enterprise Transformation

The 2022 China Enterprise Agile Practice Whitepaper, released by PingCode and Geek Media, surveyed 644 enterprises from 43 cities and 16 major industry sectors, with insights from 20 leading agile experts.

Geographic Distribution

75% of the surveyed enterprises are located in first‑tier or new first‑tier cities, with 43% concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

Industry Coverage

Respondents span 47% IT/Internet, 18% finance/insurance, 6% automotive, 4% enterprise services, and 25% other sectors; 80% of companies have over 100 employees.

Agile Adoption Growth

Compared with 2021, the share of enterprises where agile teams make up more than half of the organization rose from 55% to 63%, while firms with only pilot‑team agile dropped from 21% to 13%.

Team Size Impact

Software teams of 50‑100 members are most likely to implement full‑team agile (32%); teams of 1‑10 members follow at 28%.

Popular Practices

Scrum ceremonies and release planning rank among the top‑5 agile practices.

82% of companies use Scrum or hybrid Scrum; 64% favor Lean‑related methods, with Lean‑Kanban at 37% and pure Lean at 27%.

Scaled frameworks: Scrum of Scrums and SAFe dominate; larger firms prefer Scrum of Scrums, while SAFe is more common in organizations with fewer than 100 employees.

Engineering Practices

Continuous integration, unit testing, and continuous deployment are the top three engineering practices; test‑driven development and pair programming have the lowest adoption rates.

Tool Adoption

Agile project‑management tools are used by 96% of enterprises; Jira remains the leading tool (41%), while domestic solutions such as PingCode, Lark, ZenTao, and TAPD are rapidly gaining market share.

Benefits and Challenges

More than 40% of firms adopt agile primarily to improve quality and efficiency; 14% now emphasize better IT‑business alignment, reflecting post‑pandemic focus on value delivery. Organizational and cultural conflict is the biggest obstacle (50% of respondents), followed by lack of agile experience and talent.

Top Case Studies

The whitepaper highlights ten best‑practice cases, ranging from an internet giant’s continuous product satisfaction improvements to an automotive supplier’s rapid delivery under a software‑defined vehicle paradigm.