OSSAP - a Situational Method for Defining Open Source Software Adoption Processes
Lidia López, Dolors Costal,Jolita Ralyté,Xavier Franch, Lucía Méndez, Maria Carmela Annosi
Abstract Organizations are increasingly becoming Open Source Software (OSS) adopters, either as a result of a strategic decision or just as a consequence of some techno-logical choices. The strategy followed to adopt OSS shapes organizations’ busi-nesses; therefore methods to assess such impact are needed. In this paper, we propose OSSAP, a method for defining OSS Adoption business Processes that has been built using a Situational Method Engineering (SME) approach. We use SME to combine two well-known modelling methods, namely goal-oriented models (using i*) and business process models (using BPMN), with a pre-existing catalogue of goal-oriented OSS adoption strategy models. First, we de-fine a repository of reusable method chunks, including the guidelines to apply them. Then, we define OSSAP as a composition of those method chunks to help organizations to improve their business processes in order to integrate the best fit-ting OSS adoption strategy. The approach is illustrated with an example of appli-cation in a big telecommunications company.
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