Methods & Tools Survey Confirms Increased Agile Adoption
We recently run a survey with readers of Methods & Tools to understand what stage is the agile approach (XP, Scrum, TDD, …) adoption at your location? (2005 results)
Category: Numbers
Software development surveys and polls results
Low Software Maintenance Period?
Software maintenance is an important part of the software development activity, but it is also the less discussed. As an example of its relative importance, you could just compare the space occupied by “software maintenance” and “test driven development” in Wikipedia (and I have nothing against TDD). Furthermore, software maintenance …
A View from the Top on Web 2.0
Recent publications of surveys on Web 2.0 usage by McKinsey, The Economist or Forrester Research presents some interesting information on how managers and CIO see the new technologies that have conquered the Web these recent years. Let us look at their content before trying to analyse what they could mean. …
The Relative Importance of Web Development
If you follow the evolution of software development on Internet, you may have the impression that every new development is Web based and that the main areas of concern are whether you should develop new application with Ruby on Rail or if you should choose Flash rather than Ajax for …
Slow Developer Growth in the USA?
A recent Evans Data survey was discussed in an InfoWorld article “Software developer growth slows in North America”. It tells us that the worldwide software developer population is expected to grow from 14.5 million now to 19.5 million in 2010. North America will account for only 18 percent of those jobs …
More Offshoring than Outsourcing in Software Development
Outsourcing is often closely related to offshoring in software development, but you can outsource onshore and you can create offshore subsidiaries. This seems to be the current trend for large occidental organisation that want to profit for lower costs in countries like India, but maintain a high control on the …