Surveys Exploring The Current State of Information Technology Practices
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I have been performing surveys pertaining to various issues within the IT community.  I've decided to make the data available to others so that they can evaluate it, and hopefully share their findings, with others. I also have some advice to share about surveying the agile community including how to get feedback about your survey design.  Please take advantage of this free resource.

Currently Active Surveys

Agile Surveys

• 2010 Scrum Certification Survey (Ambysoft, October 2010)
• Agile Adoption Rate Survey Results (DDJ, March 2006)
• Agile Adoption Rate Survey Results (DDJ, March 2007)
• Agile Adoption Rate Survey Results (DDJ, February 2008)
• Agile Certification Survey Results (Ambysoft, April 2009)
• Agile and Enterprise Architecture 2011 (Ambysoft, March 2011) 
• Agile Outsourcing (March 2013 Agile State of the Art survey) (Ambysoft March-April 2013) New 
• Agile Planning 2012:Explores adoption rates and effectiveness of agile planning practices such as initial release planning, iteration planning, look-ahead planning, and daily coordination meetings. (Ambysoft, January 2012)
• Agile Practices and Principles Survey Results (Ambysoft, July 2008)
• Agile Practices Survey Results (Ambysoft, July 2009) 
• Agile Project Initiation (Ambysoft, August 2009) 
• Agile Project Success Rates (Ambysoft, April 2010)
• Agile Project Types: Identifies the types of projects agile techniques are applied on, and if so are organizations succeeding at doing so (Ambysoft, June 2011) 
• Agile State of the Art November 2010 Survey: Focus on transition/release phase but also training, mentoring, and project funding
• Agile State of the Art November 2011 Survey: Focus on accelerators and impediments to agile adoption, including team size and geographic distribution 
• Agile Teams 2011: Focus is on team size, geographic distribution, and communication strategies with stakeholders (Ambysoft, April/May 2011) 
• Agile Team Issues, October 2011: Questions exploring position name of the project lead and what non-agile groups agile teams work with (Ambysoft, October 2011)
• Agile Testing Survey 2012: Questions exploring the application of both agile and traditional testing and quality strategies on agile teams (Ambysoft, November 2012) New
• Agility at Scale Survey Results (DDJ, November 2009): Also some interesting results about why some organizations still aren't adopting agile strategies 
• Agility at Scale Survey Results (DDJ, Summer 2012): Explores the success and failure rates for different scaling factors
• How Agile Are You? 2010 (Ambysoft July 2010)
• How Agile Are You? 2013 (Ambysoft January 2013) New
• Test Driven Development Survey Results (Ambysoft, October 2008)

Data Management Surveys

• Current State of Data Management Survey Results (DDJ, July 2006)
• Current State of Data Quality Techniques Results (DDJ, September 2006)
• Data-Developer Relations Survey Results (DDJ, September 2009): Also some interesting results about documentation and onboarding

IT Surveys

• 2007 IT Project Success Rates Survey Results (DDJ, August 2007)
• 2008 IT Project Success Rates Survey Results (DDJ, December 2008)
• 2010 IT Project Success Rates Survey Results (DDJ, May/June 2010)
• 2011 IT Project Success Rates Survey Results (DDJ, October 2011)
• Enterprise Architecture Survey Results (DDJ, January 2010)
• IT Governance and Project Management Survey Results (DDJ, July 2009)
• IT Project Success Rates by Paradigm and Team Size (DDJ, July 2010)
• Modeling and Documentation Survey Results (DDJ, July 2008)
• Process Framework Survey Results (DDJ, January 2008)
• Project Management Practices for Staying Out of Trouble (DDJ, December 2010)
• Stakeholder Relationship Survey (DDJ, May 2011)

Other People's Agile Surveys

• Deb Hartmann's The State of Agile in Practice (2006)
• Methods and Tools Agile Adoption Survey (2008)
• Shine Technology's Agile Adoption Survey (2003)
• Stelligent's TDD Survey (2007)
• Version One's State of Agile Development Survey (2009)

If you know of any agile survey results which do not appear in this list, please contact me so that I can add it to the list (thanks in advance).