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How To Mix Agile And Software Developed By A Community

Posted on 23 November, 2009 by Stef

Back from Italian Agile Day where Stefano Fornari of Funambol with Marco Abis of Sourcesense animated a debate about mixing Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Agile development methods. I used to think that there was no issue because, after … Continue reading →

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Don’t call it Scrum

Posted on 9 April, 2009 by Stef

Gianugo Rabellino has given me more food for thoughts about my research on Free/Libre Open Source software development and Agile/Scrum methods. His latest post contains a sentence that summarizes my key finding so far: At the end of the day, … Continue reading →

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SCRUM and volunteer developers

Posted on 20 March, 2009 by Stef

Funambol engineering team uses the SCRUM methodology to develop software. It’s a very interesting method that seems highly compatible with free/libre open source software development habits. It mandates fast release cycles (like the release early/release often mantra), teams that can … Continue reading →

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New Maemo UI and new Funambol Code Sniper

Posted on 5 March, 2009 by Stef

Nokia has shown the new UI framework for the next Maemo SDK, codename Freemantle. They finally are getting rid of the stylus keyboard and a lot of very cool new features. Ars published an overview and more up to date … Continue reading →

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