A recent Methods & Tools poll examined at what stage is the CMMI approach adoption in software development organizations.

Not aware
13%

Not using
29%

Investigating
8%

Analysed and rejected
4%

Trying to reach Level 2
12%

CMMI Level 2, 3 or 4
20%

CMMI Level 5
14%

Participants: 392
Ending date: January 2009

A recent Methods & Tools poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Is it an informal activity that is done before integration if there is some time left after programming or is it the key element of the development effort? The question was: How is unit testing performed at your location?

This survey was conducted and sponsored by VersionOne in June and July 2008. It received answers from 3061 participants in 80 countries; most of them (70%) were participating to the survey for the first time. The majority of the respondents were agile team leaders, coach or consultants. This could lead to a bias towards a perhaps slightly more optimistic vision of the reality of agile projects. Whether they are agile or not, managers stay managers ;o)

Open source development tools like MySQL, Eclipse, PHP or JBoss are now adopted by many software development organizations. Our last poll examined how the quality of open source tools is perceived against their commercial competitors. We conducted a similar poll twice in the past and it is interesting to compare the results.

Open source versus commercial tools
2008
 2006
 2004

Same quality
31%
38%
 32%

There is no easy answer to this question
25%
22%
24%

Superior in quality
21%
20%
26%

Inferior in quality
12%
 12%
13%

I do not use open source tools
6%
6%
4%

I do not use commercial tools
3%
2%
1%

Participants
913
524
312

Source: Methods & Tools
 

At what stage is the agile approach (XP, Scrum, TDD, …) adoption at your location? (2005 results)
Not aware 13% (26%)
Not using 13% (16%)
Investigating 14% (14%)
Analysed and rejected 4% (3%)
Pilot projects 8%(4%)
Partial implementation (adoption of some agile practices) 17% (17%)
Partial deployment (some projects are using this approach) 14% (12%)
Deployed (all new projects are using this approach) 17% (8%)
Participants: 512 (232)
Ending date: February 2008
Source: Methods & Tools
Comparing the 2008 and 2005 results, we could notice that the level of ignorance of the agile movement has decreased, as only 13% of the …