Stellman Does Open Source

The hype surrounding open source creates the impression, among outsiders to the movement, that opensource projects tend to be somewhat loosely managed. The reality is that -- while open source does profit from egalitarian, meritocratic and concensus-driven collaboration modalities, open source is also helping to evolve and extend the disciplines of project management and quality control. The big difference between the quality paradigms influencing enterprise and commercial development teams, on the one hand, and open source teams on the other, is that in the latter case, programmers demand quality from one another, and impose best practices to obtain it.

Open source project management and quality-control best practice will be the topic of Andrew Stellman's revised presentation at Dr. Dobb's SD Expo India, beginning 1/16. Andrew is an expert on open source and surrounding agile software development methodologies -- more about his work can be found at www.stellman-greene.com/aspm/.

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