Open Source Delivers

Jeff Hammond of Forrester Research talks about the “iron triangle” of software development. “Schedule, features, cost…pick any two,” is the way he describes it. He often brings this up in [...]

In a previous posting, I argued that open source governance is an essential IT process and a natural extension to existing IT governance.  Without the visibility and controls provided by [...]

Does your organization’s IT governance framework include the governance and management of open source components? We asked this question during a webinar with the ISACA organization and the responses were [...]

Last week I attended the LinuxCon Japan conference, which was held in Yokohama – one of the great port cities of the world! There’s a terrific Ferris wheel near the [...]

Lawyers and legal organizations play a more significant role in open source than in other technical communities.  One reason is that open source software (OSS) is such a unique and [...]

Creating an open source software policy is a strategic imperative for organizations in the software industry.  But what does a strategic policy include, and how can you implement one? What [...]

So, your developers (hopefully using company-provided guidance) have found some FOSS that seems to fit the bill.   But, does it?  You’ll need to ask yourself the following questions: What are [...]

Talk to pretty much any corporate IP lawyer anywhere in the world and they will be able to articulate why it is important to put controls in place to govern [...]

South Korea is at the leading edge of adopting new and exciting information technologies powered by open source software. The South Korean government has recently begun to consider alternatives to [...]

There is a lot of interest in speeding the rate of software innovation, a critical process that grows in significance as the importance of software grows.   Jeff Hammond, a senior [...]