Agility and the Survey Life-Cycle - How to win the hearts and minds of the team? |
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| Coordinator 1 | Dr Yuri Pettinicchi (SHARE) |
| Coordinator 2 | Dr Arne Bethmann (SHARE Germany) |
The increasing digitalization of the survey process has caused many tasks in the survey life cycle to resemble software development tasks more closely. These tasks include programming questionnaires, data processing, and the automatic preparation of documentation. The best practices in software development include adapting tools such as bug tracking/ticketing systems, version control for documents and (meta)data, and management processes like Agile Development. Although using new methods and tools seems to offer efficiency gains, higher resilience and better quality, the path to adoption is fraught with obstacles — some technical, others human.
This session invites anyone who has decided to implement ideas from software development in survey practice. Some of the questions to consider include: Which new idea was chosen and why? How did it need to be adapted to meet the specific requirements of survey development in your team? Which factors led the team to doubt the benefits of these new ideas? What helped to convince the team of to find the time and to make the effort? What can we learn from these experiences for our own projects?