Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, essentially said as much in a packed session at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention recently. His words were timely, as the Agile 2008 conference is running the week of Aug. 4 in Toronto.

However, Shuttleworth said that from the practices of his team at Canonical, things seem to work best when they incorporate development practices from the open-source community in with the agile methods they use. That way the efforts tend to run even better than with simply agile practices alone, he said.

Shuttleworth spoke on "philosophy, principles, practices -- things that work," and said Canonical has taken on "a community-inspired methodology." He  said he was filling in for Ian Clatworthy, a senior software engineer at Canonical, who was scheduled to be at the event.

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