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The Developing the Developer project started with a discussion between Mike Morrison and Ken Ritchie during one of our action learning sets.

Mike & Ken met on a Henley diploma in Management and Organisational Development programme in 1992. The programme was based on the results of the 1991 survey “develop the developer” run by AMED and the Department for Employment.

We thought it would be an interesting project to re- run a version of the survey some 16 years on, to look at how the world of development has changed, and to see if the predictions made were realistic.

It is with this goal in mind that the 2007 Developing the Developer survey has been conceived.

This is a private/ not for profit venture. It was just one of those projects that just started, gathered momentum and now has a life of its own.

Please help us with this exciting and interesting project.

You can help by promoting the survey and encouraging developers to get involved. Your commitment when completing the survey is 20 minutes. 

All of those organisations that have offered their help will get a mention in the findings, as well as a listing on this site and any press releases.

Executive summaries of the findings will be made available to supporters and to those completing the survey through our media supporters.

We would like to express out thanks to those supporters who have "bought in" to the vision of looking at the world of training.

Find out more about Mike and Ken

This project is not supported by funding from any source.  Consultancy and technical expertise has been supplied by Mike and Ken, The technology and hosting for the survey has been supplied by Cambridge Software Publishing and all of the supporters have contributed by proactively distributing the survey, telling their clients and their press and media contacts.

I wish that I could say that the project was the result of a drunken night in a bar - but it was not - it was a discussion over a large Cappuccino. How times change!

Mike Morrison

London 2007

UPDATE

Ok so this was a much bigger project than we had anticipated and we have both been subject to an extraordinaryly high workload! - but we wont complain.

So we are a little behind, but some of the key findings were published at the ITOL christmas convention. More is being drip fed onto the Develop the Developer Blog

Earlier in the year we were approached by a director of BILD, to become involved and have contributed a resource to help the reportwriting phase. This should be complete by the summer. Watch this space!

Mike

London March 2008