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Subject: [XP] 2009 Agile Practice Adoption Survey -- Chance to Win a Copy of "Stand Back and Deliver"
From: Scott Ambler <scottwambler () yahoo ! com>
Date: 2009-07-09 1:52:44
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Mike Vizdos and I would like to invite you spend a few moments taking the 2009 Agile \
Practice Adoption survey at \
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3lZZ3fYRxvV3y6XsnXPDEw_3d_3d . The goal of \
this survey is to find out what practices agile practitioners find useful, which \
they're finding difficult to adopt, and which they're abandoning. There are 17 \
questions in this survey, although you may not be asked all of them, and it should \
take you at most 5 minutes to complete.
To entice you to fill out the survey we'll be drawing for 10 copies of "Stand Back \
and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility" by Pollyanna Pixton, Niel Nickolaisen, \
Todd Little, and Kent McDonald published in June 2009 by Addison Wesley. I've been \
reading through this book the past few days and I'm finding a lot of great insights \
in it. More information can be found at \
http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321572882
The results of this survey will be summarized in my "Agile by the Numbers" \
presentation at Agile 2009 in Chicago (Aug 24-28). Furthermore, this is an open \
survey, so the source data (without identifying information to protect your privacy), \
a summary slide deck, and the original source questions will be posted at \
www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ so that others may analyze the data for their own purposes. \
Data from previous surveys have been used by university students and professors for \
their research papers, and hopefully the same will be true of the data from this \
survey. The results from several other surveys are already posted there, so please \
feel free to take advantage of this resource.
We apologize if you've received several copies of this request.
- Scott
Scott W. Ambler
Chief Methodologist/Agile, IBM Rational
Agile at Scale: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler
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<p><br>
Mike Vizdos and I would like to invite you spend a few moments taking the 2009 Agile \
Practice Adoption survey at <a \
href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=3lZZ3fYRxvV3y6XsnXPDEw_3d_3d">http://www.s \
urveymo<wbr>nkey.com/<wbr>s.aspx?sm=<wbr>3lZZ3fYRxvV3y6Xs<wbr>nXPDEw_3d_<wbr>3d</a> . \
The goal of this survey is to find out what practices agile practitioners find \
useful, which they're finding difficult to adopt, and which they're abandoning. \
There are 17 questions in this survey, although you may not be asked all of them, and \
it should take you at most 5 minutes to complete. <br> <br>
To entice you to fill out the survey we'll be drawing for 10 copies of "Stand \
Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility" by Pollyanna Pixton, Niel \
Nickolaisen, Todd Little, and Kent McDonald published in June 2009 by Addison Wesley. \
I've been reading through this book the past few days and I'm finding a lot of great \
insights in it. More information can be found at <a \
href="http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321572882">http://www.informit<wbr>.com/store/<wbr>product.aspx?<wbr>isbn=0321572882</a><br>
<br>
The results of this survey will be summarized in my "Agile by the Numbers" \
presentation at Agile 2009 in Chicago (Aug 24-28). Furthermore, this is an open \
survey, so the source data (without identifying information to protect your privacy), \
a summary slide deck, and the original source questions will be posted at \
www.ambysoft.<wbr>com/surveys/ so that others may analyze the data for their own \
purposes. Data from previous surveys have been used by university students and \
professors for their research papers, and hopefully the same will be true of the data \
from this survey. The results from several other surveys are already posted there, so \
please feel free to take advantage of this resource.<br> <br>
We apologize if you've received several copies of this request.<br>
<br>
- Scott<br>
Scott W. Ambler<br>
Chief Methodologist/<wbr>Agile, IBM Rational<br>
Agile at Scale: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler">http://www.ibm.<wbr>com/developerwor<wbr>ks/blogs/<wbr>page/ambler</a><br>
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