Open approach of scaled agile for organizations and communities dedicated to the development of Open-Source projects

How organizations develop and provide their services and software projects is undergoing significant changes and the work methodology applied has agility as its key element when it comes to successfully facing this process for the transformation of traditional business models. This scenario is not foreign to companies dedicated to the development of open-source projects, whose products have experienced a boom over the last decade, leading more and more organizations to include them in their portfolios to improve their IT management, accelerate their digital transformation and boost their businesses. These changes are due to the unique qualities and characteristics of free software, which provide organizations with a wide range of helpful solutions for data analysis, distributed communication, or application deployment. It is essential for these types of companies, which are often supported by communities of developers, to have a culture and values aligned with agility, to prevent the numerous problems that may be caused by the lack of agility concerning the sustainability and transparency of their projects, thereby seriously damaging their competitiveness. This work presents the current state of a doctoral research to support a new open approach that provides solutions and proposals to these organizations and Open-Source communities, providing them with values, principles, guidelines, and agile skills with which to respond to the difficulties and complex dynamics that they face in the agile scaling process.