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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