%0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes %D 2009 %T Bridging the Gap between Agile and Free Software Approaches %A Paul J. Adams %A Capiluppi, Andrea %K agile %K kde %K lines of code %K loc %K plone %K productivity %K scm %K scrum %K sprints %K subversion %X 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. %B International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes %V 1 %P 58 - 71 %8 31/2009 %N 1 %R 10.4018/jossp.2009010104