Jeremy,

Wondering if this is a skewed picture since you're such a big proponent and it is your "local" UG. The influence you have in such a closed, small community is inordinately larger than say in San Francisco or Boston. Doesn't this show that you and others have got the "local team" marching to the same beat?

@Skeptic:

I would hardly call Austin's .NET user community a "closed, small" one.  Certainly, compared to San Francisco or Boston it's "smaller", but not small.

Austin's .NET community is perhaps more progressive than, say New York's or Boston's, to be sure. So that does skew results somewhat.

While Austin may be a few years ahead of some other markets in terms of progress of Agile, I do think Jeremy's point stands, albeit as a leading indicator instead of a trailing one.

The CodeProject newsletter yesterday pointed to an interesting article in the SDTimes entitled Agile: Dogma or Degree (www.sdtimes.com/.../33523) that is worth reading. Scott Ambler's Agile Process Maturity Model that the article mentions is also valuable in assessing how far we have come. I don't see you as endorsing dogma but rather applauding progress, regardless to what degree agile methods are being applied.

@Jeremy,

I gave a session on SOLID last night in Milwaukee and asked a similar set questions.

Mine were:

# of people testing - 60-70%

# of people using an isolation framework - 25%

# of people with build servers - 10%

I agree adoption is picking up, be we have not gotten there yet.