Managing risk in open source software adoption

Xavier Franch; Angelo Susi; Maria C. Annosi; Claudia Ayala; Ruediger Glott; Daniel Gross; Ron Kenett; Fabio Mancinelli; Pop Ramsamy; Cedric Thomas; David Ameller; Stijn Bannier; Nili Bergida; Yehuda Blumenfeld; Olivier Bouzereau; Dolors Costal; Manuel Domínguez; Kirsten Haaland; Lidia López; Mirko Morandini; Alberto Siena

Managing risk in open source software adoption

Xavier Franch, Angelo Susi, Maria C. Annosi, Claudia Ayala, Ruediger Glott, Daniel Gross, Ron Kenett, Fabio Mancinelli, Pop Ramsamy, Cedric Thomas, David Ameller, Stijn Bannier, Nili Bergida, Yehuda Blumenfeld, Olivier Bouzereau, Dolors Costal, Manuel Domínguez, Kirsten Haaland, Lidia López, Mirko MorandiniAlberto Siena

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Abstract

By 2016 an estimated 95% of all commercial software packages will include Open Source Software (OSS). This extended adoption is yet not avoiding failure rates in OSS projects to be as high as 50%. Inadequate risk management has been identified among the top mistakes to avoid when implementing OSS-based solutions. Understanding, managing and mitigating OSS adoption risks is therefore crucial to avoid potentially significant adverse impact on the business. In this position paper we portray a short report of work in progress on risk management in OSS adoption processes. We present a risk-aware technical decision-making management platform integrated in a business-oriented decision-making framework, which together support placing technical OSS adoption decisions into organizational, business strategy as well as the broader OSS community context. The platform will be validated against a collection of use cases coming from different types of organizations: big companies, SMEs, public administration, consolidated OSS communities and emergent small OSS products.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies
Pages	258-264
Number of pages	7
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th International Joint conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2013 - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: Jul 29 2013 → Jul 31 2013

Publication series

Name	ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies

Conference

Conference	8th International Joint conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2013
Country/Territory	Iceland
City	Reykjavik
Period	07/29/13 → 07/31/13

Keywords

Istar
Open-source software
Oss
Risk management
Software ecosystem
Strategic modelling

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Franch, X., Susi, A., Annosi, M. C., Ayala, C., Glott, R., Gross, D., Kenett, R., Mancinelli, F., Ramsamy, P., Thomas, C., Ameller, D., Bannier, S., Bergida, N., Blumenfeld, Y., Bouzereau, O., Costal, D., Domínguez, M., Haaland, K., López, L., ... Siena, A. (2013). Managing risk in open source software adoption. In ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies (pp. 258-264). (ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies).

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Managing risk in open source software adoption. / Franch, Xavier; Susi, Angelo; Annosi, Maria C. et al.
ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies. 2013. p. 258-264 (ICSOFT 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies).

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