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Organizational Design and Engineering
Most readers of this blog are probably familiar with Conway’s Law. So named by Fred Brooks in the “Mythical Man-Month” and popularized by the saying “if you have four teams working on a compiler you will get a four-pass compiler.” This sociological observation stipulates that the social architecture of a corporation i.e. its organizational hierarchy…
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WikiSym 2009 Call for Papers (Submissions)
WikiSym 2009 Call for Papers The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/ October 25-27, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, USA In-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGWEB, co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2009, peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library ======================================================== The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the premier conference dedicated to wikis…
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Every Complex System that Works Started Out as a Simple System that Worked
The title of this blog post is my paraphrasing of a “law” from the tongue-in-cheek but nevertheless somewhat serious book “Systemantics” by John Gall. I tracked it down through Grady Booch’s original OOAD book and it had been pointed out to me by Ralph Johnson. What’s so special about this quote? Well, it frames an…
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Open Source Labor Economics…
…is not nearly as sexy a title for an industry talk as is “Open Source Hacker Careers” so it had to go. The result you can observe at the 2009 Open Source Meets Business conference in Nuremberg, Germany, on January 28th, 2009, when I will be giving a talk (almost) so named. Open Source Software…
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Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM ’09)
For your information, a workshop on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM ’09) CALL FOR PAPERS European Workshop on “Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM’09)” www1.in.tum.de/softeam09
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How Open Source Comments (by Programming Language)
We recently looked at the commenting practice of active working open source projects. It is quite impressive: The average comment density of open source is around 19%. (Comment density is the percentage of text that are comments, or, more formally: comment density = comment lines / (comment lines + source code lines); for example, two…