Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of CaseStudyQuestionnaire

Timestamp:

Sep 9, 2010, 6:09:31 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Dunck

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CaseStudyQuestionnaire

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-A list of questions to  ask of case studies in uses of Django.
+This is intended to be polished into a questionnaire or set of interview prompts to be used in case studies in uses of Django.  
 
-Drafting, so using Pirate Pad for now:
-http://piratepad.net/9w7ILjRkH2
+See also [http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CaseStudyLeads leads for case studies].
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+== Demographics ==
+      
+What size is your company, and what size is the team that adopted Django?
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+Was your adoption for a greenfield project, or did you migrate an existing project?
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+If migrating, what was the codebase in before, and what size was the code before and after?
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+How large was your first Django project?  Was it deliberately experimental?
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+How much effort was spent adopting Django?  How much did it cost or save?
+
+== Adoption ==
+
+How did you begin considering Django?
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+Who was the champion / change initiator?
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+When debating adoption, what concerns were raised?  Have these concerns proved to be valid?
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+What arguments, support, or materials helped win the debate whether to adopt Django?
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+Was there internal organizational stress in adoption?  If so, what might have improved the situation?
+
+== Maturity ==
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+Did you train your existing team to use Django, or did they learn it on their own?
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+Have you found hiring for Django easier or more difficult than the prior skill sets?
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+What do you consider to be key successes in your adoption of Django?
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+What shortcomings have you encountered during your adoption?
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+What do you consider to be the best and worst things about Django?
+
+How many unique users, pageviews per month?
+What request latency do you see?  How many requests per second per web server?
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+What tooling do you use around deployment, source control, etc?
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+What development methodology do you use?
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+Do you plan to expand or retract your use of Django?
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+Would you be willing to make a credited testimonial about Django?  Both technical and business soundbites are useful.
+
+== Community feedback ==
+
+Did you find the following useful:
+ 
+ * documentation
+ * django-* mailing lists
+ * IRC
+ * Conferences
+ * Private training
+ * Public training
+
+If you could change one thing about Django, what would it be?
+
+== Community membership ==
+
+Have you contributed any patches to Django?
+ * How happy were you with that experience?
+
+Do you maintain any customizations of Django (cache backends, template tags, etc.)?
+
+Do you maintain any private patches of the Django codebase?
+ * How happy were you with that experience?
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+Would you consider hosting a sprint in support of Django?  (Support for organizing is readily available.)
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+What third party Django packages/projects did you use?
+  * How happy were you with that experience?
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+What open source projects came out of your effort?
+  * Who else is using your open source efforts?
+  * Have you had any major contributions to your open source projects from resources outside of your organization?