Website Quality Survey: Your Help Is Needed

Dave Rico is asking for your help, and I'm hoping you can lend him a hand (or a few mouse clicks, at minimum). As part of his doctoral dissertation, Dave has put together a survey entitled Effects of Agile Methods on Website Quality to gauge, well, the effects of agile methods on website quality. And Dave and I would greatly appreciate it you would spare a few minutes participating.

The survey is a two-stage survey.

• The first stage involves determining the degree to which software developers are using Agile Methods to produce e-commerce websites.
• The second stage involves asking Internet shoppers and consumers to evaluate the quality of the e-commerce websites produced by the software developers (which will be done at a later date after this first-stage survey).

This is one of those everybody wins deals:

• Dave wins because he gets the benefit of your experience for his research.
• I win (actually, we all win) because he will be writing an article for Dr. Dobb's Journal about the survey and results.
• You win because Dave will be offering incentives for you to participate (see details at the survey web site).

It is worth mentioning that Dave is experienced in these things. He's the author of ROI of Software Process Improvement: Metrics for Project Managers and Software Engineers, among other books and papers. If you have any questions for him or would like to receive a copy of the research results at dfrico@comcast.net. And as Dave says, "though minimal demographic data may be collected, absolute data privacy will be maintained at all times."

So take a few minutes and help Dave polish off that PhD by spending a few minutes on the survey. We'll all be winners.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 03:50 PM  Permalink