I will go to the Agile New England monthly meeting tonight and make a presentation about "What Agile can learn from Open Source."  We will meet at the IBM office in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Learn more at agilenewengland.org

Here is the abstract.

Agile and Open Source methodologies grew up in different neighborhoods. Agile became popular for small, continuously managed commercial projects. Open Source projects grew into big, freewheeling “ecosystems” with hundreds of contributors. Both sides evolved powerful ideas for accelerating software development.

Today some Agile organizations have outgrown a number of conventional Agile practices. It’s time to see what Agile can learn from Open Source communities to scale up projects.

In this presentation, we’ll look at distributed teams, team roles, building teams, planning releases, managing releases, testing releases, and scaling to big projects. Everyone should get some new ideas inspired by the Open Source movement that they can use in their own projects.

I will also present an idea for a new and more streamlined agile process that includes these learnings.