[Python-Dev] Fwd: survey about the use of agile practices
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 25 14:56:52 CET 2006
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> Even apart from the website that Samuele found, the content sounded
>> genuine. Just not something I feel like dealing with (too many
>> surveys).
>
> from what I can tell, it was blasted to everyone with a sourceforge
> account, which indicates that they're don't really care what projects
> or persons they get information from. even if it's a genuine survey,
> it's crap science.
I was going to respond to the survey (I try to help out that kind of
research when I can), but far too many of my responses would have been
of the "it depends on what you mean by term X" variety (e.g. what's the
dividing line between a unit test and an acceptance test? Does the fact
that essentially all Python developers are also Python users count as
users being involved in project management? Is refactoring still
explicit when you're doing it specifically to make something else you
want to do easier?).
The biggest single flaw I found is that the survey assumes the reader is
familiar with the Agile Manifesto's particular brand of KoolAid, without
providing any context or links to additional information.
Given the flaws in the survey itself, I don't see how anything
meaningful could be extracted from the responses (and collating emailed
survey responses manually is going to be one heckuva task).
Cheers,
Nick.
P.S. <tinfoil hat> The *real* title of the thesis: An Investigation into
the Response of Open Source Developers to Flawed Research Surveys
</tinfoil hat> };>
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