Master Open Source 2009
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Funambol is an open source mobile synchronization company based in Silicon Valley with an engineering team in Italy. It produces a mobile synchronization platform and clients for multiple platforms. The engineering team uses agile Scrum methodology and recently moved core development to this process. Funambol manages projects on its Forge and uses Rally software for agile project management.
Master Open Source 2009
- 1. Funambol Open Source Stefano Fornari Master Open Source – Università di Bologna 24 Gennaio 2009
- 2. Summary The company The product The engineering team Funambol open source Funambol project management
- 3. The company #1 cross-platform mobile open source company Headquartered in the US (Silicon Valley) Engineering team in Italy Sales presence in the US, Germany, Dubai, Beijing http://www.funambol.com
- 4. The product/1 Funambol is a product company i.e. No consulting “MobileMe” for the masses Client and server components Carrier grade server Many components Synchronization server Push server Inbox listener PIM listener
- 5. The product/2 Multi platform clients WindowsMobile (smartphone & pocket PC) Win32/fat clients Symbian J2ME J2SE BlackBerry iPhone Android Mobile/Desktop linux An online portal (my.funambol.com)
- 6. The product/3 Licensing Dual license AGPL 3.0/commercial
- 7. The engineering team Based in Pavia 19 development team 18 in Pavia 1 in Portugal 8 QA team 4 in Pavia 1 in Palermo 2 in Romania 1 in the USA 5 Product team chief architect, scrum master, technical writer, release eng, office manager
- 8. <250 250 – 2,500 2,500 – 10,000 10,000 – 25,000 25,000 – 50,000 >50,000
- 9. Mobile Open Source Platform
- 10. Open source development Contributions
- 11. Funambol development community Contributors
- 12. Funambol development community Contributors core projects community projects connectors plug ins OEMs
- 13. Developers community core Funambol developers full time Funambol employees core developers committed developers owners of a module alone players or other companies' employees contributors 3 rd party developers
- 14. Contributors and contributions contributors do not have write access to the code repository freely offered from developers to the community tracked in the bug tracking system reviewed by core developers accepted and integrated in the main trunk by core developers
- 15. core/3 rd party development Funambol provides the framework and API 3 rd parties develop independently Funambol offers the possibility to host the project on the Funambol forge forge.funambol.org community support core developers take care of the module they are owner
- 16. Funambol core development recently moved from a traditional development process to agile using scrum methodology encouraging adoption of some XP practices
- 17. Scrum - definitions/1 Backlog a queue of prioritised work items (things to do...) each work item is a “User Story” each user story has an estimate associated with it Sprint iteration a release is built of a number of iterations sprint planning meeting at the beginning of each sprint daily scrum meetings by the teams sprint review sprint retrospective
- 18. Scrum - definitions/2 Product Owner creates and prioritises the product backlog understands the customer’s needs and the business value Scrum Master organises the process keeps track of the teams progress removes obstacles from the path of the team Team multifunctional (dev + qa + tech writer ...) organises itself to perform the work and deliver business value
- 19. Funambol development process two fundamental moments: release planning iteration planning
- 20. Release planning extracting the release backlog from the main backlog based on teams velocity time boxed (1 sprint) From here... ...to here
- 21. Iteration planning Extracting the iteration backlog from the release backlog Task definition and commitment time boxed (1 day) From here... ... to here
- 22. Project management Funambol forge http://www.forge.funambol.org Agile project management software Rally enterprise (by Rally Software Development)