Comments on: BarCamp Apache Oxford: Agile and Open Source Development http://marco.hubdirector.com/barcamp-apache-oxford-agile-open-source-development/ Just another blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ABShttp://marco.hubdirector.com/barcamp-apache-oxford-agile-open-source-development/comment-page-1/#comment-168 ABS Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:56:26 +0000 http://blog.hubdirector.com/?p=225#comment-168 Jacopo this is certainly a possibility but we discussed also situations in which this isn't feasible. For example: a project where contributors works for many different companies and are paid by their employers to develop and contribute code that it's useful to them in the first place. In that case there is a project in which every contributor has her own customer (her employer). There cannot be any real coordination between the different customers (as they have different goals and it only happens that they can be contributed back to the project). This makes it hard but also REALLY interesting because over a period of time increments of the overall project kinda emerge by themselves by putting together many loose contributions. Jacopo this is certainly a possibility but we discussed also situations in which this isn’t feasible. For example: a project where contributors works for many different companies and are paid by their employers to develop and contribute code that it’s useful to them in the first place.

In that case there is a project in which every contributor has her own customer (her employer). There cannot be any real coordination between the different customers (as they have different goals and it only happens that they can be contributed back to the project).

This makes it hard but also REALLY interesting because over a period of time increments of the overall project kinda emerge by themselves by putting together many loose contributions.

]]> By: Jacopohttp://marco.hubdirector.com/barcamp-apache-oxford-agile-open-source-development/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Jacopo Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:49:07 +0000 http://blog.hubdirector.com/?p=225#comment-167 i have little experience in OS projects, a bit more as an XPer. i can feel the missing lead when no clear "customer" role is found. on an XP project what is tipically done is to find a "surrogate" customer, someone playing the role of a stakeholder who can set priorities and give feedback on delivered application. an internal customer-proxy could be the project manager, a business analyst, or even better an end-user. what about this for an OS project? could an end-user play the role of the customer? i have little experience in OS projects, a bit more as an XPer. i can feel the missing lead when no clear “customer” role is found.

on an XP project what is tipically done is to find a “surrogate” customer, someone playing the role of a stakeholder who can set priorities and give feedback on delivered application. an internal customer-proxy could be the project manager, a business analyst, or even better an end-user.

what about this for an OS project? could an end-user play the role of the customer?

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