Internal pilots (a.k.a. "eating your own dog food," or "drinking your own champagne") are important tools. But how? What kind of feedback do you get from these exercises, and what sort don't you get?
That's the topic of a new research project that we just launched. While Forrester starts hundreds of new research efforts this year, I'm highlighting this one for two reasons: (1) I'm doing the research, and I think that everything I do is interesting; (2) this is the second time I've done a research project in a very transparent way. From start to finish, we're going to work in the open, to give you, Dear Reader, an opportunity to comment on the research as we do it.
The first project done in this fashion, which investigated "thought leadership" (whatever that means) in the technology industry, resulted in this RoleView document. Along the way, we solicited comments on the basic research plan, the questions we asked our interview subjects, and the content of the document. We threw out questions to Forrester community members along the way, and at the end, we did a brief retrospection on how well we succeeded.
We're Interested In Your Feedback Again. No, Really.
We're following the same game plan this time. Three documents just went live in The Forrester Community For Application Development & Delivery Professionals:
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