  This year, the Agile Manifesto completes seventeen years and, throughout the
world, companies and researchers seek to understand their adoption stage, as
well as the benefits, barriers, and limitations of agile methods. Although we
have some studies and questionnaire data at the global level, we know little
about how the Paraguayan software community is adopting agile methods. The
present work conducted a research to set up the current stage of adoption,
initial concerns and barriers of implementation of agile methods in software
development companies in Paraguay. An online survey was sent to representatives
of 53 Paraguayan companies. Of these, 9 (17%) companies responded. The concern
about adopting more agile methods (44.44% of respondents) was the lack of
reliability in product quality if developed using agile methods. The main
barrier was the lack of experience (66.66%) of the companies.
