by W. Watson | May 12, 2024 | Open Source
Are cooperatives1 and open source projects2 and communities a natural fit? What are the similarities between the two? What is the difference between a traditional company that invest heavily in open source and the traditional products and services that are produced...
by W. Watson | May 12, 2024 | Open Source
Harvesting the sharing economy Not all meritocracies are fair. New forms of meritocracies are emerging where ideas are harvested into an ownership hierarchy. This results in a system that lures participants into giving away assets that they would normally keep for...
by W. Watson | May 12, 2024 | Open Source
Bikeshedding is a destructive way to communicate ideas. What is a Bike Shed? When there are multiple paths to an outcome with no one path being better than the rest, that outcome is a bike shed. The term bike shed comes from an example of a company engaging in a...
by W. Watson | May 12, 2024 | Open Source
Commitment and Remorse Is software estimation a fool’s errand? If so, then how much more problematic would self organized software estimation be? Estimation within software has often been treated like a bike shed1, so much so that the latest views seem to force...
by W. Watson | May 12, 2024 | Open Source
The new way to work in the sharing economy Some professionals do not believe self-organized groups are possible or, if possible, efficient enough to endure as a valid corporate structure. Camazine et al.1 describe self-organization as: “… a process in which...
