Comments on: Agile and Open Source: Unrelated or Kissing Cousins? http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2006/06/07/agile-and-open-source-unrelated-or-kissing-cousins/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Thu, 17 May 2012 05:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Cote' http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2006/06/07/agile-and-open-source-unrelated-or-kissing-cousins/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Cote' Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:53:10 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=175#comment-258 Anne: yes, I think you're spot on. We've discussed this line of thinking several times on <a href="http://drunkandretired.com/podcast/" rel="nofollow">the DrunkAndRetired.com podcast</a>. In the end, it's always hard to compete with people who care about the work they're doing. Or, who are, as you might put it, mindful. Cody: "Now! Who wants ice-cream?" Anne: yes, I think you're spot on. We've discussed this line of thinking several times on the DrunkAndRetired.com podcast. In the end, it's always hard to compete with people who care about the work they're doing. Or, who are, as you might put it, mindful.
Cody: "Now! Who wants ice-cream?"

]]> By: Cody http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2006/06/07/agile-and-open-source-unrelated-or-kissing-cousins/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Cody Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:10:29 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=175#comment-257 FF Woodycook! Shake the crime stick. FF Woodycook! Shake the crime stick.

]]> By: Anne http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2006/06/07/agile-and-open-source-unrelated-or-kissing-cousins/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Anne Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:45:36 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/wp/?p=175#comment-256 I don't know much about open source development except as an interested observer, but it seems to me that part of its power is a sort of "wisdom of crowds" thing that might be diluted if you got everyone in the same place. I was reminded recently by one of Kathy Sierra's posts that Surowiecki's wisdom of crowds is not based on groupthink or consensus. It comes out of aggregating smart individual and independent decisions. Perhaps the reason that open source works better than geographically distributed corporate IT teams is because individuals in open source projects have much more autonomy than IT employees. I don’t know much about open source development except as an interested observer, but it seems to me that part of its power is a sort of “wisdom of crowds” thing that might be diluted if you got everyone in the same place.

I was reminded recently by one of Kathy Sierra’s posts that Surowiecki’s wisdom of crowds is not based on groupthink or consensus. It comes out of aggregating smart individual and independent decisions. Perhaps the reason that open source works better than geographically distributed corporate IT teams is because individuals in open source projects have much more autonomy than IT employees.

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