Month: December 2012

2012 – a year of learning technology failures

It’s that time of year when all the movers and shakers attempt to predict what will be big in 2013. Well there are no such predictions here. However, they do say you can predict the future by learning lessons from the past, so I’m going look back over the past year instead and ask: what…
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How open source development processes impact software quality

This article is part of a series of blog posts reviewing academic studies into open source software quality. Exploring the Effects of Process Characteristics on Product Quality in Open Source Software Development, Koch and Neumann, 2008 Koch and Neumann from Vienna University published this paper in 2008. It built on prior published research into open source development…
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