Category: 1. Software Industry
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Student Startup Passion vs. Market Potential
As part of being a professor, I’m trying to motivate student startups. Here, I want to talk about student startups coming out of a Master’s program. These are different from startups coming out of my research lab, which are based on work with my Ph.D. students. Master student startups are typically smaller, not based on…
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Founders vs. Success vs. Home-runs
A student of mine pointed me to this article about who founds companies. It is a well-known fact (or at least lore as I have no reference at hand) that the highest success rate as a founder is with those around age 40 (38 according to the article). At that age, a founder has worked…
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The five stages of open source volunteering [Book Chapter]
Abstract: Today’s software systems build on open source software. Thus, we need to understand how to successfully create, nurture, and mature the software development communities of these open source projects. In this article, we review and discuss best practices of the open source volunteering and recruitment process that successful project leaders are using to lead…
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Communication in Firm-Internal Global Software Development with China
Abstract: Globally distributed software development projects are on the rise. However, 69% of cross-regional projects fail completely or partially, because of lack of cross-cultural understanding. This paper presents a qualitative study of the impact of communication on Global Software Development (GSD) within firms due to cultural differences. In particular, we provide a model of problems…
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Best Quotes for Promoting Open Source Developer Career Article
IEEE Computer asked me about some quotes for promoting my recent article on developer careers, to be used on their social media channels. Naturally, I had a field day. A brainstorm ensued. Here are some of the better ones I suggested to them: The changing career of programmers: Open source to help or hurt? http://wp.me/Pe4V6-WV…
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Mike Milinkovich on Open Source Consortia @mmilinkov
Mike Milinkovich’s talk at OSS 2015 on “How the Eclipse Community Works” TRENDS Trend #1: Software über alles (ref: Software is eating the world) Software is becoming the value-creating differentiator (impl: hardware is getting commoditized faster than software) Trend #2: Quoting Immelt (GE): Every industrial company will become a software company Milinkovich: Then, every company…