[Gimp-developer] Participation in academic survey

[Giacomo Marzi <giacomo marzi unifi it>]

Dear,
I am Giacomo Marzi, doctoral student in Management at University of Pisa 
(IT) and University of Florence (IT). I am writing to propose your 
participation in a short online questionnaire carried out by University 
of Florence (IT), Stockholm School of Economics (SE) and Polytechnic of 
Milan (IT) in where we would analyze when a developer is coding beyond 
what is required by the customer or the market need.

What is our proposal?
We would like to involve your community in a survey, asking around 50 
questions which do not take more than 10 minutes about the developer’s 
coding style and how they manage complexity in development. The 
questions are general and they do not involve sensitive or private 
information. The anonymous results of this project will be diffused 
through conferences and scientific publications.

What we offer in return?
The results will be presented in a brief executive summary that you can 
share with your community to make them aware about several issues 
involving coding and how methodology such as AGILE or SCRUM could reduce 
the excess of complexity.

Please consider that the survey is completely anonymous and all 
information that you provide will be kept strictly confidential.
You can see my publication in ResearchGate 
(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giacomo_Marzi) or in my LinkedIn 
profile (http://it.linkedin.com/in/giacomomarzi)

I am awaiting your kindly reply.

Yours faithfully,
Giacomo Marzi