Embracing FLOSS As A Shortcut Towards Agility
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The document discusses how Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) can facilitate organizational agility through community-focused practices and adaptability. It presents various hypotheses suggesting that FLOSS culture aligns with agile values and principles, making it a beneficial shortcut for organizations seeking transformation. The speaker emphasizes the importance of key skills and the learning ecosystem provided by FLOSS projects for professionals involved in agility transformation processes.
Embracing FLOSS As A Shortcut Towards Agility
- 2. Embracing FLOSS as a shortcut towards agility FOSS North 2019 April 9th CC-BY-SA 4.0 Agustín Benito Bethencourt Principal Consultant Codethink Ltd
- 4. The speaker: @toscalix ● Principal Consultant at Codethink Ltd ● Experienced manager in open and distributed environments. ● Consultancy/management of software production and maintenance of complex Linux based systems/platforms/distros. ● Contributor in several FOSS communities (KDE, openSUSE…). ● More about Agustín at his site.
- 6. ● Provides system level software engineering and consultancy services. ● Supports global brands in the automotive, technology, medical devices and enterprise sectors. ● Founded 2007, self-funded, independent and impartial. ● 90+ staff, mostly systems software engineers and consultants. ● Headquartered in Manchester, UK with a further presence around the world. Some quick facts about Codethink
- 7. ● Software engineering to deliver hard, system level projects. ● World class Linux and Open Source expertise. ● Consultancy to improve software engineering practice. ● Design and build of software engineering tools. ● Strategies for long term maintenance of software. ● Lowering client dependence on software vendors and third parties. ● Honest, impartial advice and critical thinking. Our customers come to us for
- 8. ● Codethink was founded by FLOSS engineers. ● Long and successful track record in creating, supporting and exploiting Open Source initiatives. ● Our people contribute to a variety of Open Source projects on regular basis. Some them play key roles. ● Support corporate customers in making the most of FOSS. Open Source Experts
- 9. ● BuildStream, the software integration tool. ● BuildGrid, remote build cashing and execution. ● Freedesktop-SDK, which provides runtimes based on freedesktop.org modules and platform and SDK runtimes for Flatpak applications. ● Trustable Software, a systematic approach to establish trust in software. Codethink and Open Source: examples
- 10. 1. Disclaimer and hypothesis. 2. FLOSS as shortcut to adopt agile values. 3. FLOSS as shortcut to adopt agile principles. 4. FLOSS as shortcut to adopt Agile methodologies. 5. FLOSS as a shortcut to develop key skills. Talking Points
- 11. Let’s start!
- 12. 1.- Disclaimer and hypothesis
- 13. Agility is referred as in this talk as “agile at scale” instead of the brand, the methods or the definition at the Agile Manifesto. Disclaimer 1
- 14. I usually refer to … “towards agility” to reinforce the idea of journey compared with the sense of destination that many provide to the agile methods. Disclaimer 2
- 15. ● Agile methods were designed as team-level methods. They scale well horizontally across teams. ● Sadly local optimizations does not roll up. Hypothesis 1
- 16. Organizations cannot “become agile” by simply scaling up team-level methods (agile methodologies). Hypothesis 1
- 17. ● FLOSS focus on communities and practices, which increases adaptability. ● Some FLOSS projects have demonstrated they can scale up. Hypothesis 2
- 18. FLOSS culture and many of its practices can help organizations in their journey towards agility (transformation at scale). Hypothesis 2
- 19. 2.- FLOSS as a shortcut to adopt… agile values
- 20. ● Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools. Team. ● Working Software over comprehensive documentation. Trust. ● Customer Collaboration over contract negotiation. Collaboration. ● Responding to Change over following a plan. Flexibility. Agile values
- 21. Agile vs (subjectives) Open Source key values ● Consensus. ● Transparency. ● Co-creation. ● Freedom. ● Team. ● Trust. ● Collaboration. ● Flexibility.
- 22. 3.- FLOSS as a shortcut to adopt… agile principles
- 23. “5.- Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.” 12 Principles behind the Agile Manifesto Agile vs Open Source Principles
- 24. 4.- FLOSS as a shortcut to adopt… agile methodologies
- 25. Co-located vs remote vs distributed teams. ● Agile promotes colocation. ● The number of distributed companies doing agile/DevOps/CD is growing. ● Open Source projects are global (fully distributed). Agile Methodologies vs FLOSS best practices
- 26. 5.- FLOSS as a shortcut to develop... key skills
- 27. From project to product mindset: ● Code ownership. ● Maintainable code. Competences, skills
- 28. … in summary
- 29. FLOSS projects provide a low risk - high return learning ecosystem for professionals of those organizations involved in transformation processes towards agility. Takeaways
- 30. Thank you Agustín Benito Bethencourt @toscalix
- 31. Q&A