08Oct So, your company is trying to decide whether or not it needs a presence in the social media space. But you’re really not sure if your customers (or potential customers) want you or need you to be involved in the social media arena. Well, maybe the results of a recent survey from The 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study will help you decide what to do. The study presents the findings of an online survey conducted September 11-12, 2008 by Opinion Research Corporation among 1,092 adults comprising 525 men and 567 women 18 years of age and older. The survey focussed on how Americans use or expect to use social media to interact with businesses. Here are some of the key results:
- 60% of those surveyed interact with companies using social media
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18Jun With the increased interest in agile development these days, it’s good to keep tabs on what the industry is doing in terms of the adoption and use of agile practices. For the past 2 years, Version One has conducted a “State of Agile Development Survey”. Now, they are conducting their 3rd Annual Survey to gauge the adoption level and value of agile practices. It should take less than 10 minutes to complete. And, as a bonus this year, they will be drawing 3 prizes from the respondent pool: a $750 and two $250 gift certificates to Amazon.com. The survey is completely anonymous and the results will be made publicly available. If you’re interested in taking the survey or want more details, visit Version One’s Survey page here.
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13Mar Well, the polls have closed, the results have been tallied, cross-tabulated and graphed for the Agile GIS Survey 2008 (and unlike the Democratic primary race here in the U.S., we have a conclusion). A complete whitepaper detailing the survey results and conclusions is available here. A summary of the survey results is available here. A version of the whitepaper has also been published by Directions Magazine on their website and is available here.
Overall the survey was a huge success. We gathered 347 responses from GIS professionals from 36 countries. Here are some of the highlights:
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19Dec In the coming months, I’ll be conducting interviews with leaders in the GIS industry discussing their level of agile adoption. However, today I found two new polls on the Directions Magazine website which give an insight into what the GIS market is doing with agile. The first poll examined the level of knowledge GIS professionals had in terms of agile product/software management knowledge. The results showed that only 28% of the 36 respondents are using agile practices (and what that means can be kind of nebulous). The astonishing figure is that 31% of the industry has never heard of agile. This may help answer Dave Bouwman’s and my questions about why the GIS industry is slow in adopting agile practices.
The results of this poll stand in sharp contrast to the level of agile adoption in the broader software development world. According to an August 2006 survey by Version One, 84% of the 722 respondents indicated that their company had adopted Agile development practices somewhere within their software organization. A similar survey conducted by Digital Focus last year concluded that 81% of the 136 executives they surveyed were either actively using Agile development methodologies within their organization or looking for opportunities to do so. This makes two clear points: Read more »
