Aligning Business Goals and Risks in OSS Adoption
Dolors Costal, Lidia López, Mirko Morandini, Alberto Siena, Maria Carmela Annosi, Daniel Gross, Lucía Méndez, Xavier Franch, Angelo Susi
Abstract Increasing adoption of
Open Source Software (OSS) requires a change in the organizational culture and
reshaping IT decision-makers mindset. Adopting OSS software components
introduces some risks that can affect the adopter organization’s business goals,
therefore they need to be considered. To assess these risks, it is required to
understand the socio-technical structures that interrelate the stakeholders in
the OSS ecosystem, and how these structures may propagate the potential risks to
them. In this paper, we study the connection between OSS adoption risks and OSS
adopter organizations’ business goals. We propose a model-based approach and analysis
framework that combines two existing frameworks: the i* framework to model and reason about business goals, and the
RiskML notation to represent and analyse OSS adoption risks. We illustrate our
approach with data drawn from an industrial partner organisation in a joint EU
project. Jointly with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) and Ericsson Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. (Italy)
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