Welcome to this edition of Scott Ambler's "State of the IT Union" Survey. The goal of this ongoing survey series is to find out what IT professionals are actually doing in practice. There's a lot of rhetoric flying around out there but not a lot of hard data, making it very difficult for IT departments to make fact-based decisions as to how to organize the work that they do. You can help to rectify this problem by filling out this survey as honestly and thoroughly as you can.

This survey should take you about 4 minutes to complete. Thank you very much for investing your valuable time to fill it out.

Enter the Draw to Win a Book!
To entice you to fill out the survey we'll be drawing for 10 copies of "Leading Lean Software Development" by Mary and Tom Poppendieck published in November 2009 by Addison Wesley. For more information about the book, visit http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321620704

What we're doing with the information:
The results of this survey will be summarized in a forthcoming Information Week newsletter by Scott Ambler. Furthermore, this is an open survey, so the source data (without identifying information to protect your privacy), a summary slide deck, and the original source questions will be posted at www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ so that others may analyze the data for their own purposes. Data from previous surveys have been used by university students and professors for their research papers, and hopefully the same will be true of the data from this survey. The results from several other surveys are already posted there, so please feel free to take advantage of this resource.