Managing Open Source Projects: A Wiley Tech Brief

By Jan Sandred

The only guide to managing and integrating the open source model With the phenomenal success of Linux, companies are taking open source business solutions much more seriously than ever before. This book helps to satisfy the growing demand for guidance on how to manage open source enterprise development projects. Expert Jan Sandred explores the open source philosophy, describes current software tools for managing open source projects, and provides expert guidance on how to organize and manage open source projects using the Internet as a collaboration tool. With the help of several fascinating and instructive case studies, Sandred explores practical concerns such as building, motivating, and managing virtual teams; structuring tasks and meeting deadlines; establishing trust; project management software tools; maintaining project security; and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471403962
• ISBN13: 9780471403968
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Practical stuff on Open Source

This is a most valuable book on Open Source. There is very little serious information around for those who want to use this model in practice. This one fills the gap. There are evidently several kinds of projects that can benefit, both technically and business wise, from using Open Source as a development model. Read this book before you start! It will help.

It really is a masterpiece

I am very glad for having bought the book, it is extremely interesting. Chapter 1 is more than a historical introduction, is the best written chronicle of 25 years that changed the world making everyone's life so different. It really is a masterpiece.

It confirmed a lot of our ideas

A friend got me in the loop to read the book. great stuff. It confirmed a lot of our ideas about where things could be going here.

Awesome book

Awesome book. Relivant and timely. Wish I had written it. It is a hot topic.

Really nice overview

This was a really nice overview of the business aspects of Open Source. I run projects in a large company, and my programmers keep saying they want to use Open Source. Well, now I know better what it is, and whether we can use it (not). The only thing I wished for was more examples from big companies using Open Source, but I have checked and there seems to be no more than what is in the book. There is a lot of mysticism around Open Source, and for me this book sure cleared up some of the fog.