Publications

The Synergies of Cooperatives and 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...
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Harvestocracy

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...
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Self-Organized Structures

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 pattern...
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On Bike Sheds and Experts

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...

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Self Organized Estimation

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...

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Self Organized Resource Allocation

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 pattern...

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