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State of the Art Software Development Practices
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| dant262@yahoo.com 2007-03-22, 7:03 pm |
| Dan Turk
Colorado State University
26 Rockwell Hall
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1277
USA
March 22, 2007
My name is Dan Turk, and I am a faculty member in the Department of
Computer Information Systems at Colorado State University. My
colleague, Leo Vijayasarathy, and I are conducting a study to better
understand the use of agile software development processes, methods,
and techniques, and the benefits and limitations associated with their
use. About 2 years ago we performed a similar survey. However, while
that survey was targeted solely at people who had already been
frequent users of agile processes, the current survey looks to draw
data from a larger segment of developers and has been updated for that
purpose.
Please consider participating in this study by completing a brief
survey posted at http://www.business.colostate.edu/l...gile/start.cfm.
A summary of the results will be posted to this group at the
conclusion of this study.
Your responses will be entirely anonymous and confidential. The
survey does not collect any identifying information and cannot be
tracked to the person completing it. General information about your
title and years of experience are requested only to build a profile of
the survey respondents.
Your participation in this study is voluntary. There are no known
risks associated with taking part in it. You may stop participating
at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are
otherwise entitled. If you have questions regarding your rights as a
volunteer in this research, please contact Janell Meldrem, Senior
Human Research Administrator, (970) 491-1563,
Janell.Meldrem@colostate.edu.
Thank you in advance for completing the survey and your contribution
to this research. If you have any questions about the study or the
survey, please call me at 970-491-0467 or email me at
Dan.Turk@colostate.edu.
Sincerely,
Dan Turk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems
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| JXStern 2007-03-22, 10:02 pm |
| On 22 Mar 2007 09:20:51 -0700, dant262@yahoo.com wrote:
>Please consider participating in this study by completing a brief
>survey posted at http://www.business.colostate.edu/l...gile/start.cfm.
Starts out well, then requires a whole lot of evaluation on the
participant's part. Sorry, but that makes it only a survey of
attitudes, not facts, and on almost every question I felt a need to
add a paragraph of qualifications, which was not possible, and would
be time-consuming if it were.
J.
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| CTips 2007-03-27, 10:07 pm |
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> ... are conducting a study to better
> understand the use of agile software development processes,...
> and limitations associated with their
> use. ... However, while
> that survey was targeted solely at people who had already been
> frequent users of agile processes, the current survey looks to draw
> data from a larger segment of developers ...
If intention of this survey is to evaluate limitations of Agile, then it
is very badly designed.
For instance, where can someone from the "larger segment of developers"
who do not use agile register the limitations "agile development
processes degrade productivity", or "agile development processes lead to
buggy code"?
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