Speaker
Dr
Peter Peterson
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Description
Collaborative software provides for improved community engagement, better reliability, and continued development. These benefits come with additional costs to effective communication. For a project developed by a distributed team to be successful, it must adopt strategies to overcome communication issues. Specifically, an effective distributed team must communicate where the project currently is (distribution model, packaging, documentation), where it is going (project plans, issue tracking, milestones, release dates), where it has been (source control system, previous versions), and its values (scope and direction). This presentation will explore a variety of open source projects, how they communicate, and practical suggestions for improving communication in your projects.
Primary author
Dr
Peter Peterson
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Co-author
Steven Hahn
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
