My new mantra is "Email is not work". I just got back from OSBC 2008, and saw once again, how tied we all are to our electronic devices. Now I like my BlackBerry as much as the next person, but I'm afraid that we may be so busy checking email that we are missing [...]
Read More »In his summary What I learned from OSBC 2008, Matt Asay commented on how we align open source business models with customer satisfaction (and willingness to pay". According to Matt: Enterprises love open source but the business models necessary to fuel both their happiness and that of the vendors still need a lot of work. Jon [...]
Read More »Radiohead was one of the first bands to release an album for free over the internet, but they later wound up releasing a regular album and taking their download links down. They also view the effort as something of a failure, and Trent Reznor chalks this up to them being insincere. Reznor points out that [...]
Read More »A team that wants to move from traditional methodologies towards an Agile approach may want to gradually shift toward Agile instead of one day completely changing all practices. An immediate change to Agile may be risky, so a phased approach may help a team avoid the perils around adopting an unfamiliar methodology. The most important [...]
Read More »Jeremy Thomas posted a very cool presentation about SCRUM in his Agile Development blog post. We use SCRUM to develop products here at OpenLogic and I don't think that I'll ever use another development methodology. I've worked in waterfall, spiral, and rapid iteration environments, but nothing compares to the ease and efficacy of SCRUM. As [...]
Read More »I was reading this blog post the other day, and it tied in to some of the recent discussion on this blog as related to NIN's open approach to making music available. The notion put forward (and linked to) is that copy protection is pointless. The blogger goes on to point out that "the fact [...]
Read More »After my “Would you do it again for free?” talk people always come up to share their stories. (It's one of my favorite parts of public speaking.) One common comment – one that initially surprised me – is “I try to keep my open source software work and my job separate.” I had assumed that [...]
Read More »Agile methodologies are much more common within the better open source projects than many would think based upon the primary tenets of Agile. Agile covets customer feedback during development of a project which is incorporated in subsequent releases or benchmarks of a project. Some might argue that open source projects lack the frequent customer feedback [...]
Read More »A little over a month ago Sandro Groganz announced the launch of InitMarketing, his new marketing consultancy. Like any new company InitMarketing is in need of a logo, so Sandro is conducting a logo design contest through the end of the month. Being a marketing guy in the open source software industry, I figured I’d [...]
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