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Scaling and Internationalizing an Agile FOSS Project: Lessons Learned

Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT,volume 451)

Abstract

This paper describes problems that arose with the scaling and internationalization of the open source project Catrobat. The problems we faced were the lack of a centralized user management, insufficient scaling of our communication channels, and the necessity to adapt agile development techniques to remote collaboration. To solve the problems we decided to use a mix of open source tools (Git, IRC, LDAP) and commercial solutions (Jira, Confluence, GitHub) because we believe that this mix best fits our needs. Other projects can benefit from the lessons we learned during the reorganization of our knowledge base and communication tools, as infrastructure changes can be very labor-intensive and time-consuming.

Keywords

  • Agile development
  • Kanban
  • Distributed software development
  • Documentation management
  • Communication
  • Scaling
  • Internationalization

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  1. Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16b/II, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Stephan Fellhofer, Annemarie Harzl & Wolfgang Slany

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

    Ernesto Damiani

  2. Computer Science Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Crema, Italy

    Fulvio Frati

  3. Department Informatik, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Dirk Riehle

  4. Carnegie Mellon University, Moffett Field, California, USA

    Anthony I. Wasserman

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Fellhofer, S., Harzl, A., Slany, W. (2015). Scaling and Internationalizing an Agile FOSS Project: Lessons Learned. In: Damiani, E., Frati, F., Riehle, D., Wasserman, A. (eds) Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact. OSS 2015. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 451. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17837-0_2

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