Sprint-driven development: Working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community

Anders Sigfridsson; Gabriela Avram; Anne Sheehan; Daniel K. Sullivan

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_11

Sprint-driven development: Working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community

Anders Sigfridsson, Gabriela Avram, Anne Sheehan, Daniel K. Sullivan

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University of Limerick

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In this paper we examine sprint-driven software development as it occurs in a specific Open Source community, PyPy. Applying a situated learning perspective, we report the findings from a study focused on the activities leading up to, taking place during, and following after sprints. The study included analyses of sprint reports, email archives and other documents available on the community website, as well as a one-week period of direct observation of a specific sprint. The objective of the study was to elaborate on how the practices of sprint-driven development in the PyPy community facilitate learning, the dissemination of knowledge among its members and the expansion of the Open Source community. This paper aims to assess how sprint-driven development can facilitate situated learning in distributed software development by describing the practices applied in PyPy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation
Subtitle of host publication	IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11-14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland
Editors	Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Walt Scacchi, Alberto Sillitti
Pages	133-146
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_11
Publication status	Published - 2007

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Name	IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
Volume	234
ISSN (Print)	1571-5736

Keywords

Distributed software development
Open source communities
Situated learning
Sprints

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Sigfridsson, A., Avram, G., Sheehan, A., & Sullivan, D. K. (2007). Sprint-driven development: Working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community. In J. Feller, B. Fitzgerald, W. Scacchi, & A. Sillitti (Eds.), Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11-14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland (pp. 133-146). (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing; Vol. 234). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_11

Sigfridsson, Anders ; Avram, Gabriela ; Sheehan, Anne et al. / Sprint-driven development : Working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community. Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11-14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland. editor / Joseph Feller ; Brian Fitzgerald ; Walt Scacchi ; Alberto Sillitti. 2007. pp. 133-146 (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing).

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Sigfridsson, A, Avram, G, Sheehan, A & Sullivan, DK 2007, Sprint-driven development: Working, learning and the process of enculturation in the PyPy community. in J Feller, B Fitzgerald, W Scacchi & A Sillitti (eds), Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11-14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol. 234, pp. 133-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_11

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Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11-14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland. ed. / Joseph Feller; Brian Fitzgerald; Walt Scacchi; Alberto Sillitti. 2007. p. 133-146 (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing; Vol. 234).

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