Adopting Open Source Software

Fitzgerald, Brian; Kesan, Jay P.; Russo, Barbara; Shaikh, Maha; Succi, Giancarlo

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“…9,20 Adopting new scaling practices is also challenging, as there are many cross-cutting factors that can impact and have been found in technology adoption studies. [21][22][23][24][25][26] In particular, resistance to change and weak management support can play a relevant role. 22,25,26 As it has been observed, "real agile development with Scrum implies a deep change to become an agile organization; it is notWe are, however, far away from reaching consensus on the best set of practices given a context.…”

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“…[21][22][23][24][25][26] In particular, resistance to change and weak management support can play a relevant role. 22,25,26 As it has been observed, "real agile development with Scrum implies a deep change to become an agile organization; it is notWe are, however, far away from reaching consensus on the best set of practices given a context. 4,9 We know that scaling agile is particularly challenging in the distributed development context, 10,31 for the development of safety critical systems in regulated environments, 2 for continuous value delivery, 32 and due to contradictions that might emerge in large bureaucratic organizations.…”

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Scaling agile in large organizations: Practices, challenges, and success factors

Kalenda

Hyna²,

Rossi

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Context: Agile software development has nowadays reached wide adoption. However, moving agile to large‐scale contexts is a complex task with many challenges involved. Objective: In this paper, we review practices, challenges, and success factors for scaling agile both from literature and within a large software company, identifying the most critical factors. Method: We conduct a focused literature review to map the importance of scaling practices, challenges, and success factors. The outcome of this focused literature review is used to guide action research within a software company with a view to scaling agile processes. Results: Company culture, prior agile and lean experience, management support, and value unification were found to be key success factors during the action research process. Resistance to change, an overly aggressive roll‐out time frame, quality assurance concerns, and integration into preexisting nonagile business processes were found to be the critical challenges in the scaling process. Conclusion: The action research process allowed to cross‐fertilize ideas from literature to the company's context. Scaling agile within an organization does not need to follow a specific scheme, rather the process can be tailored to the needs while keeping the core values and principles of agile methodologies.

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Scaling agile in large organizations: Practices, challenges, and success factors

Kalenda

Hyna²,

Rossi

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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113

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“…Others focus on specific contexts; for example, both Rossi et al [42], and Fitzgerald et al [14] present frameworks to explain FOSS adoption in the public sector. Eckhardt et al studied the impact of social influences, referring to the influences of colleagues and other departments in an organization [12].…”

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How do free/open source developers pick their tools?

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Fitzgerald

2016

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has come to play a critical role in the global software industry. Organizations are widely adopting FOSS and interacting with open source communities, and hence organizations have a considerable interest in seeing these communities flourishing. Little research has focused on the tools used to develop that software. Given the absence of formal mandate that would appear in traditional organizations, an open question is what influences a FOSS contributor's decision to adopt a tool and how workflows get established in FOSS teams. In this paper we report on a Delphi study conducted in the Debian Project, one of the largest FOSS projects. Drawing from data collected in three phases from a panel of 21 carefully selected and well-informed participants, we identified 15 factors that affect decisions to adopt tools and relate those to existing models of innovation and diffusion. CCS Concepts• Software and its engineering → Software maintenance tools; Collaboration in software development KeywordsFree/open source software, tools, Delphi study, qualitative study

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“…The aim of this paper is to understand higher level procurement decisions where decisions are made by strategists, top IT managers and policy writers so users, unlike for Boudreau and Robey [18], are not the real focus for us. Instead, we look to literature on procurement of open source and primary adoption of open source software (by IT staff and developers, and not secondary adoption by users [19]). Open source software implies openness of the source code thus making it possible to change, and improve the code.…”

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Mutability and Becoming: Materializing of Public Sector Adoption of Open Source Software

Shaikh

2012

Shaping the Future of ICT Research. Methods and Approaches

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Abstract. Juxtaposing two local council cases of open source software adoption in the UK we highlight their differences and similarities in open source adoption and implementation. Our narratives indicate that for both cases there was strong goodwill towards open source yet the trajectories of implementation differed widely. We draw on Deleuze and Guattari's ideas of becoming, tracing versus mapping and multiplicity to explain how becoming occurs at different speeds. Our data shows that the becoming of adoption can be both constrained and precipitated by various forms of materiality (of the assemblage of the open source ecosystem). The interesting point of departure of our study is how open source software -a much touted transparent and open phenomenon -is by its nuanced and layered mutability able to make the process and practices surrounding it less visible. Keywords: open source, public sector procurement, becoming, mutability, materiality. IntroductionWhy is it that when two different local councils adopt open source software that one proves to become more adept at it, while the other finds itself implicated in different machinations? This paper approaches this question with a focus on the becoming (performative understanding [1,2]) of the primary adoption process. Our contribution lies in unpacking the adoption and procurement of open source software (OSS) by two different local councils in the UK sensitized by ideas of becoming, mutability and materiality. We recognize and show how the becoming (complicated, uncertain, never stable or complete) of OSS adoption indicates that the process of becoming occurs at different speeds [3]. The speed of becoming is managed and controlled and can be purposively directed. Our cases show how management in the local councils reined in (or otherwise) the process of becoming via material instantiations of OS. The nature of materiality was manipulated in both cases to different ends, and results. We draw on Deleuze and Guattari's [4] ideas of becoming, tracing versus mapping and multiplicity alongside the shared ontology of Actor Network Theory (with [4] -ie a relational ontology where information technology and users are not defined outside their relationship but in their relational networks [5]. This consideration moves the focus of the analysis from the actor, either human or non-human, towards a more 124 M. Shaikh complex and less defined phenomenon, which is the interaction [6][7][8]. It has a "relational materiality" [9]. This reflects an aversion to accept a priori the preexistence of social structures and differences as somehow intrinsically given in the order of things, or what Barad terms "agential realism" [10, p810]. This ontological predisposition sensitizes us to the idea that more than one reality is possible. Indeed successful software adoption is never a certainty but drawing on ideas of becoming takes our analysis further by laying bare both successful and unsuccessful possibilities that are attempted, but perhaps never quite become. The relevance of such ...

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Scaling agile in large organizations: Practices, challenges, and success factors

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