Open Source and Agile Methods: Two Worlds Closer than It Seems

  • Hugo Corbucci
  • Alfredo Goldman
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing book series (LNBIP, volume 48)

Abstract

Agile methods and Free, Libre and Open Source Software communities have different approaches to produce high quality and successful software in different scenarios. This work presents two surveys, each one directed to one of the communities, aimed to identify communication issues encountered in each environment. The results provided point out to very different communities with common practices and behaviors but with very similar problems and view points to solve the issues encountered.

Keywords

agile methods open source distributed agile 

References

  1. 1.
    Raymond, E.: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (1999)Google Scholar
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    Beck, K., Cockburn, A., Cunningham, W., Fowler, M., Schwaber, K., et al.: Manifesto for Agile Software Development (2001), http://agilemanifesto.org
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    Dempsey, B., Weiss, D., Jones, P., Greenberg, J.: A quantitative profile of a community of open source Linux developers (1999)Google Scholar
  4. 4.
    International Institute of Infonomics - University of Maastricht: Free/Libre/Open Source Software: Survey and Study - Report, http://www.flossproject.org/report/

Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hugo Corbucci
    • 1
  • Alfredo Goldman
    • 1
  1. 1.CS - IMEUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)Brazil

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