Aligning Your Practices and Teams with the Survey Format 

(You may want to print this page for easy reference as you enter data.)

The data entry form is organized by practices and teams. Below are the descriptions of them.

Thank you for doing your best to align your organization chart and staff to this structure; it is designed to accommodate the broadest possible number of Solution Providers while retaining relevance and usability.

Perfection is not required; simply do your best.

For more information on the specific data (fields) being asked about each position, please see Inputting Your Compensation Data (Fields).

 Practice or Department  Comments
Application Development

People within an application development practice, including managers (who are not owners).

You will then be asked to specify whether you have project managers, graphics/UI designers, business analysts and in which languages your developers work.

Infrastructure Services Team People within an Infrastructure Services team, who primarily do T&M and/or project work, including managers (who are not owners).

 

(If you have a hybrid team which does infrastructure T&M or project work and Managed Services work, also select "Managed Services Team" and choose between them based on where people spend most of their time. It is not necessary to be perfectly accurate; use your best judgment.)

You will then be asked to specify which positions within this practice, that you currently have staffed.
Managed Services Team

People within an infrastructure Managed Services team, who work (primarily) flat fee, service-level-based engagements, including managers (who are not owners).

(If you have a hybrid team which does infrastructure T&M or project work and Managed Services work, also select "Managed Services Team" and choose between them based on where people spend most of their time. It is not necessary to be perfectly accurate; use your best judgment.)

You will then be asked to specify which positions within this practice, that you currently have staffed.

Sales Team

People within your sales team, including managers (who are not owners).

You will then be asked whether you have a dedicated sales manager, whether you have sales representatives, a tele-marketing team, and to specify the organization of your sales team.

General and Administrative  People within your Finance, HR, internal IT (if any) and similar positions in the company.
Owners / Non-Owners

Major shareholders only; that is, owners who work in the company more than part time.

Owners who are managers of, or staff in, a specific department or practice should be specified here, not in their respective department or practice.

Owners and Non-Owner CEOs who are not employed full-time in the company, should be left out of this survey.