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SAP AG, the world's third largest software vendor, held its first (mostly internal) open source summit on Nov 11-12. Prof. Riehle as an invited speaker presented his analysis of "why open source is hard for closed source vendors." (The linked to presentation is a generic one without anything specifi...

The survey results are in. Thanks to all 106 participants who contributed! A bit of background. Let me first say that the survey obviously was not comprehensive. There were a lot of good books that we missed. However, it was not the purpose to judge book authors but rather I wanted to feel confid...

(Deutsche Übersetzung weiter unten.) Survey on agile methods and open source literatur We would like to understand which books you found helped you best in understanding agile and open source software development. (This is in preparation of our upcoming "Agile and Open Source Software Dev...

For now, we are using Google Groups to communicate. The following lists are available: Public Access Lists osr-announce: For announcements by the group (low traffic, announcement-only) osr-discuss: If you would like to comment on announcements (open for all, but on topic only) Rest...

The overarching goal of our group's research is to comprehensively define "the next big" software development method. To that end, we will work to unify agile software development methods with open source software development. Agile methods can cope with changing requirements but don't scale up well...