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State of the IT UnionSurvey September 2009

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About the Survey

• September 2009• Survey link included in August 2009 DDJ Agile

Newsletter, blogged by Jon Erickson at www.ddj.com

• Data, summary, and slides downloadable from www.ambysoft.com/surveys/

• 763 respondents– 49% were developers, 21% were in management– 83% had 10+ years in IT– 26% worked in orgs of 500+ IT people– 74% North American, 16% European, 7% Asia Pacific

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Strategies for Developers to Learn Data Skills

• Data professional-led skills transfer:– 32% offered either mentoring by data professionals and/or pairing with

data professionals to developers – 22% work in organizations where developers are mentored by data

professionals in data skills– 21% work in organization where developers pair with data professionals

to gain data skills• Training in data skills:

– 18% work in organizations which offer some form of data training to developers

– 13% work in organizations which offer data modeling training to developers

– 10% work in organizations which offer data administration training to developers

• Less than ideal:– 61% work in organizations that expect developers to pick up data skills

on their own– 45% work in organizations where developers pair with other developers

to gain data skills– 10% work in organizations which believe that developers don’t need

data skills


Strategies for Data Professionals to Learn Development Skills

• Developer-led skills transfer:– 36% work in organizations where data professionals either receive

mentoring in development skills from developers and/or pair with developers

– 26% work in organizations where data professionals pair with developers to gain development skills

– 21% work in organizations where data professionals are mentored by developers in development skills

• Training in development skills:– 17% work in organizations which provide development training to data

professionals

• Less than ideal:– 40% work in organizations where data professionals are expected to

pick up development skills on their own– 23% work in organizations where data professionals pair with other data

professionals to gain development skills– 20% work in organizations where which believe that data professionals

do not need development skills


How easy is it to add a new member to a development team?Rating: -10 (very difficult) to 10 (very easy)

-1.6

-0.9

0.2

0.1

Iterative

Agile

Traditional

Ad-Hoc


What is the quality of the deliverable documentation produced by a development team?

Rating: -10 (very low) to 10 (very high)

-3.9

-1.3

-1.3

-0.6

Iterative

Agile

Traditional

Ad-Hoc

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