<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paul J. Adams</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Capiluppi, Andrea</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bridging the Gap between Agile and Free Software Approaches</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">agile</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">kde</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">lines of code</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">loc</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">plone</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">productivity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">scm</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">scrum</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">sprints</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">subversion</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">31/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">58 - 71</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agile sprints are short events where a small team collocates in order to work on particular aspects of the overall project for a short period of time. Sprinting is a process that has been observed also in Free Software projects: these two paradigms, sharing common principles and values have shown several commonalities of practice. This article evaluates the impact of sprinting on a Free Software project through the analysis of code repository logs: sprints from two Free Software projects (Plone and KDE PIM) are assessed and two hypotheses are formulated: do sprints increase productivity? Are Free Software projects more productive after sprints compared with before? The primary contribution of this article is to show how sprinting creates a large increase in productivity both during the event, and immediately after the event itself: this argues for more in-depth studies focussing on the nature of sprinting.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record></records></xml>