Survey Requests
From XPNYC
The XpNyc group has received several requests for members to fill in surveys regarding Extreme Programming practices. If you'd like to help out a grad student and contribute to worldwide knowledge of XP please fill in one or more. Here they are, as added by their authors. Authors, please remove your request when you are no longer accepting responses and post a link to the survery results once they're published.
Distributed teams and Agile
My name is Elizabeth Shaw and I represent a group called UXL (http://uxleague.org) that is involved in research on user experience design and Agile development. Currently we are researching Agile use in a distributed team environment (a team whose members who are not located in the same place).
We have created an online survey asking questions about people's experiences working on a distributed product development effort. The survey is available at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=jWGOF2TRjRhADtR7r6hZrA_3d_3d
Participation is entirely optional. There are no required questions in the survey and it is possible to exit the survey at any time. We do not require any personal information. All data collected is completely confidential and is not associated with the respondent. We would be happy to share our results with anyone interested after we have completed our data compilation.
Thank you very much for your time and attention! Please feel free to contact me anytime with any questions or comments about this post, about the survey or any other topic.
Thank you! Elizabeth Shaw elizabeth@uxlresearch.org
Web Survey: Executable Acceptance Testing/Story Testing
Recently, the agile community propagates the use of automated acceptance tests to drive software development. This approach is called executable acceptance test driven development or story test driven development. It promotes to write business facing automated tests when the team starts working on a story.
My supervisor Dr. Frank Maurer and I are investigating the usefulness of acceptance test driven development. At the moment, we are conducting the first step of the study: gathering information of how acceptance test driven development is being used in industry. We are sending this email for inviting you to participate in our study.
The participation of this study is voluntary. If you volunteer as a participant, please fill out our on-line questionnaire at: http://ebe.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/FitClipseQuestionnaire/
Filling out the questionnaire should take you only about 5-10 minutes.
No personal information will be gathered. There will not be any follow-up and there are no known or anticipated risks involved. The University of Calgary Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board has approved this research study.
The result of the study will be available publicly at our web library (http://ebe.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/ebe/Wiki.jsp?page=.Publications).
If you have any question, please feel free to contact:
Mr. Chengyao Deng, Department of Computer Science, Telephone: 210-9540,email: cdeng@cpsc.ucalgary.ca and Dr. Frank Maurer, Department of Computer Science, Telephone: 220-3531,email: maurer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
If you have any concerns about the way you¢ve been treated as a participant, please contact Bonnie Scherrer, Ethics Resource Officer, Research Services, University of Calgary at (403) 220-3782; e-mail bonnie.scherrer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Thank you very much and your help is really appreciated!
Web Based Survey: Perceptions of Systems Development Methodologies
Hello:
My name is Dave Henderson and I am a doctoral student at Virginia Tech majoring in Information Systems. I am conducting a web-based survey for my dissertation to investigate attitudes of Information Technology professionals toward using systems development methodologies. My dissertation further investigates what makes a systems development methodology useful to Information Technology professionals. The anticipated results will help researchers to find strategies for encouraging systems development methodology use.
I am currently looking for Information Technology professionals who have used a systems development methodology to participate in my survey. As members of the XP NYC Users Group, the input from members of your organization would be extremely valuable to my research. Participation in the survey is completely voluntary. The results of the survey will be posted online once the study has been completed.
If you are not familiar with any systems development methodology, please do not complete the survey. The survey requires approximately 25 minutes to complete, is completely anonymous, and will expire at midnight on Friday, May 11th 2007. Furthermore, participants will be able to enter into a random prize drawing to win $250.00. Please make sure you have time to complete the entire survey as partial responses are not counted. The survey can be accessed at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=385383631721. If you have any questions or concerns about the survey, please contact the survey administrator, David Henderson at davidlhenderson@vt.edu or his advisors, Steve Sheetz at sheetz@vt.edu or France Belanger at belanger@vt.edu. Thank you for your assistance!
Best Regards,
Dave Henderson
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Accounting and Information Systems
Virginia Tech
Email: davidlhenderson@vt.edu
