Hello:

My name is Dave Henderson and I am a doctoral student at Virginia Tech majoring in Information Systems. I am conducting a web-based survey for my dissertation to investigate attitudes of Information Technology professionals toward using the Rational Unified Process (RUP). My dissertation further investigates what makes the RUP useful to Information Technology professionals.

I am currently looking for Information Technology professionals who have used the RUP to participate in my survey. As an Information Technology professional, your input would be extremely valuable to my research.  If you are not familiar with the RUP, please do not complete the survey. The survey requires approximately 20 minutes to complete and will expire at midnight on Friday, July 6^th, 2007. Your responses will be completely anonymous. Furthermore, by completing the survey, you will be able to enter into a random prize drawing to win $250.00. Please make sure you have time to complete the entire survey as partial responses are not counted. The survey can be accessed at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=JamkwNt18q8kvR53dwRUeQ%3d%3d

If you have any questions or concerns about the survey, please contact the survey administrator, David Henderson at davidlhenderson@vt.edu or his advisors, Steve Sheetz, Ph.D. at sheetz@vt.edu or France Belanger, Ph.D. at belanger@vt.edu. Thank you for your assistance!

Best Regards,

Dave Henderson
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Accounting and Information Systems
Virginia Tech
Email: davidlhenderson@vt.edu