This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model to evaluate the agile project and portfolio management (agile PPM) market. This research enables analysis of quantitative and qualitative characteristics to provide metrics and context for users evaluating solutions in this area and to help analyze a vendor's current comparative success in the marketplace and to anticipate vendor evolution.

Main user focus areas for this market include agile-specific capabilities in the context of coordination with project and portfolio management functionality, with established, significant numbers of user deployments, intuitive access and support of highly iterative approaches across business, IT, and new product development. IDC are seeing the coupling of agile processes to enable innovation and business execution in highly dynamic competitive environments, as well as ongoing PPM leverage for DevOps and end-to-end application life-cycle management capabilities with strong analytics for enterprise Agile PPM automation.