[pypy-dev] How agile is PyPy?

[Beatrice During]

Hi there

I am working on documenting PyPy (the project) as a showcase of agile 
development. In order to be able to do this I would love to get some 
thoughts and reflections from you who are working on /following PyPy and 
the question is of course - how agile are we?

Here is some short notes on success factors of agile approaches (from an 
eworkshop in 2002 - Cockburn, Beck etc, 
http://fc-md.umd.edu/projects/Agile/Summary/SummaryPF.htm):

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In general, the group agreed that the following are the success factors 
for agile development:

§         Negotiation: If people are willing to keep talking and learning,
 	  you are, almost by definition, agile.

§         Ability to continuously learn

§         Responsibly responding to change.

§         Environment where rapid communication is enabled.

§         Team reasonably in charge of its own destiny (being allowed to
 	  succeed).

§         People are valued over other factors

§         The team needs to be more than just able, it needs to actually
           succeed. There needs to be a support network for each
 	  individual in the
 	  team to make a contribution however small.
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How does these factors apply to PyPy and this community? Are we doing 
other things that is not mentioned here that is working well for us? Things we could do better?

Your responses will be part of documentation about PyPy/agile dev 
(sprints) that will be distributed to the EU, Universities, various 
companies and other Open Source projects who have stated a clear interest 
in the PyPy showcase.....

If you feel that answering this email doesnt really fit the purpose of 
this mailinglist - please answer to me specifically.

Thank you for your contribution!

Cheers
Bea


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