Emergent Decision-Making Practices in Free/Libre Open Source Software (Floss) Development Teams

: We seek to identify work practices that make Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) development teams effective. Particularly important to team effectiveness is decision making. In this paper, we report on an inductive qualitative analysis of 360 decision episodes of six FLOSS development teams. Our analysis revealed diversity in decision-making practices that seem to be related to differences in overall team characteristics and effectiveness. Key words: Decision making practices; free/libre open source software development teams; team effectiveness; FLOSS; OSS

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: OSS
• Authors: Robert Heckman, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, James Howison, Eileen Allen, Qing Li
• Keywords: Development Teams, Free/libre Open Source, Open Source Software, OSS 2007, Software Engineering