Lidia López, Dolors Costal, Claudia P. Ayala, Xavier Franch, Ruediger Glott, Kirsten Haaland

Modelling and Applying OSS Adoption Strategies

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Agenda

Introduction

OSS Adoption Strategies Ontology

OSS Adoption Strategies Models

OSS Adoption Strategies applied to Organizations

Conclusions and Future Work

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Motivation

Business Model– Way to create value and achieve revenues according to a

Business Strategy– It aims at achieving organizational goals

Many factors impact the Business Model– IT is one of them

OSS has become a driver for business in various sectors– At 2016, 95% all commercial software will include OSS

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Motivation

OSS adoption impacts in fact far beyond technology It is necessary to support organizations that want to

adopt OSS – by analyzing the influences of such adoption

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Modelling and Applying OSS Adoption Strategies

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OSS Adoption Strategies - Background

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Not Involvement onOSS Community

Involvement onOSS Community

Consuming OSS

Producing OSS

OSS Acquisition

OSS Initiative

OSS Takeover

OSS Fork

OSS Integration

OSS Release

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Context

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Objective: Supporting organizations adopting OSS through modelling and applying OSS Adoption

Strategies RQ1: Which activities and resources characterize

OSS projects? RQ2: How do OSS activities and resources map to

OSS adoption strategies? RQ3: How OSS strategies relate to organizational

goals?

Research Questions

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AN ONTOLOGY FOR OSS ADOPTION STRATEGIES

RQ1: Which activities and resources characterize OSS projects?

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OSS Ecosystem Ontology

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OSS Community

OSS Adopter Organization

OSS Ecosystem

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OSS Community Ontology

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SIOCDhruv

OFLOSSC

OSDO O’CoP

Open Source DevelopmentOntology

Ontology forFree/Libre OSSdevelopment Communities

Ontologydedicated toCommunities ofPractice

Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities

Ontology supporting OSS bug resolution

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OSS Adopter Ontology

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Software Development

Activities

Community Oriented Activities

Communication Activities

OSS Adopter Organization

PersonnelActivities

Resources

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Community oriented Activities

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Concept Definition IdentifierCreate OSS community

Creation of an OSS Community Act-NewCOMM

Decide Activity of taking a decision related to an OSS Component

Act-DECIDE

Decision of the roadmap of an OSS component. It includes planning of releases and which features are included.

Act-DECIDE-Roadmap

Decide Acceptance Acceptance of a contributor in an OSS Community

Act-DECIDE-Acc

Decide OSS Wishlist Deciding the desired features for the next releases of an OSS component(but without a concrete planning).

Act-DECIDE-Wishlist

Making available a software component under OSS license

Act-RELEASE

Release

Decide Roadmap

OSS ADOPTION STRATEGIES MODELS

RQ2: How do OSS activities and resources map to OSS adoption strategies?

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Building OSS Adoption Strategy Models

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Integration Initiative Take-over Fork Acquisition Release

Community oriented Activities

Act-NewCOMM X X

Act-DECIDE-Roadmap X X

Act-DECIDE-Acc X X

Act-DECIDE-Wishlist X X

Act-RELEASE X X

Act-RepPATCH X X X X

Act-RepBUG X X X X

Act-SUPP X X X X

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OSS Adoption Strategy Models

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Activities and resources describing strategies

Evaluate the impact on the organizational goals

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OSS Adoption Strategy Models

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Models Content

2 Actors

Dependencies between them

Actor’s Strategic Rationale

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OSS Community

Organization

OSS Community

OrganizationOSS Component

OrganizationOSS

Community OSS Component

OSS Component

adopted

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OSS Acquisition

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OSS Integration

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APPLYING OSS ADOPTION STRATEGY MODELS

RQ3: How OSS strategies relate to organizational goals?

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Business goals and Strategy requirements

High-level goals

AdoptionStrategy

requirements

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Taking into account that…

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Models Coverage

… we define …

Coverage of the Organizational model – org-complete/incomplete

Coverage of the OSS adoption strategy model requirements– srt-complete/incomplete

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Organizational and Adoption Models

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Organizational Model Coverage Strategy Requirements Coverage

org-complete str-complete

org-complete str-incomplete

org-incomplete str-complete

org-incomplete str-incomplete

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Calculating Coverage: Example

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Calculating Coverage: Example

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Organizational model Coverage

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org-complete

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Strategy Requirements Coverage

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Strategyrequirements

str-completestr-incomplete

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Final Organization Model

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CONCLUSIONS FUTURE WORK

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Conclusions

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RQ1 RQ2

RQ3

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Future Work

Links between business models and OSS Adoption Strategies

Explore levels of coverage Using i* roles in order to refine the OSS Community

actor Combining OSS Adoption Strategies

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Lidia López – llopez@essi.upc.edu

www.essi.upc.edu/~gessi@gessi_upc

Thank you