In January 2008 Dr. Dobb's ran a survey which explored
the adoption rate and effectiveness of various process
frameworks, in particular COBIT, CMMI, ITIL, PMI
PMBoK, Prince2, TOGAF, and Zachman Framework. My
March newsletter summarized some of the results and is
posted at
http://www.ddj.com/architect/206905819?cid=Ambysoft .
The survey data, questions, and a summary slide deck
at
http://www.ambysoft.com/surveys/processFramework2008.html

Some interesting results (among many), include:
- 23% of all respondents hadn't heard about CMMI
- 52% of IT managers had not heard about COBIT.
- 32% of IT managers had not heard about ITIL
- 54% of architects hadn't heard about TOGAF
- 38% of architects hadn't heard about the Zachman
Framework
- The frameworks didn't seem to have much impact on
productivity

My February newsletter summarized other results from
the same survey regarding Agile and CMMI. That
newsletter is posted at
http://www.ddj.com/architect/206800401?cid=Ambysoft.

- Scott

Scott W. Ambler
Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Methods Group
http://www.ibm.com/rational/bios/ambler.html
Agile at Scale: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler


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