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Current state of practices in open source product development

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  • Jérémy Bonvoisin

    (Fraunhofer IPK - Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Fraunhofer)

  • Laetitia Thomas

    (CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019])

  • Robert Mies

    (Fraunhofer IPK - Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Fraunhofer)

  • Rainer Stark

    (Fraunhofer IPK - Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Fraunhofer)

  • Karine Samuel

    (CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019])

  • Roland Jochem

    (Fraunhofer IPK - Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology - Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Fraunhofer)

  • Jean-François Boujut

    (G-SCOP_CC - Conception collaborative - G-SCOP - Laboratoire des sciences pour la conception, l'optimisation et la production - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019])

  • Céline Gros

    (G-SCOP_CC - Conception collaborative - G-SCOP - Laboratoire des sciences pour la conception, l'optimisation et la production - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019])

Abstract

Open source innovation is a well-studied phenomenon of the ICT sector, but its evolution towards the field of tangible hardware product development is a newer phenomenon which remains mostly theoretical. Existing literature has identified that to push existing open source product development (OSPD) practice towards the achievement of high quality complex products, methods and tools adapted to this specific organisation of work are needed. The objective of this article is to explore the practices emerging from OSPD communities in order to support the development of appropriate process support in the future. It reports first observations made during a qualitative and comparative empirical study performed with participants of 23 OSPD projects through semi-directed interviews. Activating a formerly published framework, these observations address four themes: the organizational structure of OSPD's surrounding communities, their design process, their underlying business models and the supporting online tools they use. The preliminary results are delivered to the engineering design and management scientific community as an impulse for further research.

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  • Jérémy Bonvoisin & Laetitia Thomas & Robert Mies & Rainer Stark & Karine Samuel & Roland Jochem & Jean-François Boujut & Céline Gros, 2017. "Current state of practices in open source product development," Post-Print hal-01578044, HAL.
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