Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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There is no “donating code to the community”
There, he said it again, at the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nuremberg, Germany: “We would like to donate this code to the community.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, I’m not so sure. Or, to be frank, I think if somebody talks about donating code to the community they probably don’t understand effective open…
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Call for papers: Fourth workshop on wikis for software engineering
For your information, the fourth workshop on wikis for (in) software engineering. I’m on the program committee. CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Workshop on “Wikis for Software Engineering”, May 16, 2009, at ICSE 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009 Submissions are due on January 26 (abstracts), February 2 (papers), 2009 INTRODUCTION The use of wikis in…
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Six easy pieces of quantitatively analyzing open source projects
I’ll be giving a talk at the Open Source Business Conference 2009 in San Francisco on March 24, 2009. The talk will present an easily accessible summary of our data-driven analytical work on how open source software development works. Here is the abstract: For the first time in the history of software engineering, we can…
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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…