The concept of the core group of developers is important and often discussed in empirical studies of FLOSS projects. This paper examines the question, “how does one empirically ...
Kevin Crowston, Kangning Wei, Qing Li, James Howis...
In many libre (free, open source) software projects, most of the development is performed by a relatively small number of persons, the “core team”. The stability and permanenc...
: 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....
Robert Heckman, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, ...
Free/libre open source software (FLOSS, e.g., Linux or Apache) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activi...
1 Shared understandings are important for software development as they guide to effective individual contributions to, and coordination of, the software development process. In thi...
Barbara Scozzi, Kevin Crowston, U. Yeliz Eseryel, ...