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Wayne Wilson wrote: | Thomas Beale wrote: | | | | Some of you no doubt get the UK e-health letter, but I think it's worth | | posting the link to this story "IT projects fail because best practice | | not applied" | | | I find 'best practice' to be most often a management technique, rather | then an engineering practice. Having engineering practice available is | no guarantee of success, it all depends upon the people doing the work | and the managment support structure in place. These day's engineers do | a lot of work finding the 'marginal' limits in order to reduce costs. | I should have added the disclaimer that since I mainly work in a management capacity, that's what I see the most. I did not intend to disparage engineering. We need to understand that engineering, like most work, is a series of compromises. It is the criteria for those compromises that most often get's made by managers.
~ That's one of the under studied behaviors in open source in particular, but also in most product engineering in general.
I want to highlight, in this regard, the recent post by David Chan about what he considers to be open source as a set of collaborative behaviors manifested in public, rather than a proclomation or a set of license terms. In the past I have tried to highlight what I consider to be a 'culture' of open source which is a collective way of behavior. As open source becomes more vital to various organizational entities, it is necesssarily the case that other forms of organizational behavior will intersect with open source behavior.
In my view, this intersection, or collision as some would see it can have several outcomes. The one's we are most interested in are those that continue the use and development of open source projects. I am fairly certain that in that outcome, both the behavior of the organization and that of the open source 'culture' will change. The key point here, and the unknown to me at this time, is what kinds of change are needed to keep both the organization and the open source project alive and well?
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