Open software projects are usually portrayed by focusing on charismatic leaders, friendly communities, and meritocratic language. We dig under the surface of this stereotypical picture and analyse the social relationships of the people involved; specifically, whether they are related through...

Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Leadership -- Chapter 3 - Management- Chapter 4 - Hiring -- Chapter 5 - Quality -- Chapter 6 - Feedback -- Chapter 7 - Managing expectations -- Chapter 8 - Bureaucracy -- Chapter 9: Ethics -- Chapter 10 - Remote Work -- Afterword.

A qualitative, grounded theory research was conducted to explore and deepen the understanding of how middle and low level managers can initialize and manage information technology (IT) outsourcing projects. The study involved 17 managers and leaders working in Ukraine in offshore software...

It is commonly believed that every contributor to a free and open source software project owns copyright in their incremental contribution to the project, and owns it solely. It is also commonly believed that one must avoid a legal conclusion that the project code is jointly authored—and...

This paper describes an approach for implementing earned value (EV) management tracking on small software development projects. Small projects are difficult EV applications because work must be tracked down at the task level so it can be costed out and used as a basis for the budgeted and...

In this paper we report on the results of a study of the effort and motivations of individuals to contributing to the creation of Free/Open Source software. We used a Web-based survey, administered to 684 software developers in 287 F/OSS projects, to learn what lies behind the effort put into...