iStar Workshop accepted at RE 2016

This year I'm organising the International Workshop of i* jointly to Yijun Yu. You can find the workshop details at iStar16 website.

The workshop will be in-conjunction with the 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2016).

Paper accepted at 28th International Conference on Advance Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2016)

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.

Papers selected for WER 2016

We already select the papers to be presented at WER 2016. From the 46 submitted papers, after a fruitfull period of discussion, we finally select 12 paper as full papers, and 3 that will be presented as short papers.

Thanks to all the authors for choosing WER 2016 to submit their work.

See you soon in Quito.

RISCOSS Project has ended

After 3 and something years working on RISCOSS, the project have arrived to its end. I really enjoyed the path and I expect that the RISCOSS results prevail after this ending.

Some of you already know what this project is about, I can be a bit nuisance sometimes, I hope not too much :). RISCOSS analyses Open Source projects in order to assess about the risks of adopting this kind of software. The assessment is based mainly in information that is gathered from the project repositories (github, gitlab,...), mailing list (markmail,...), bug trackers (Jira,..) or even external tools that already gather some information from Open Source projects (sonar, olex, fossology,...).

If you have, are using or want to use an Open Source project hosted at github, you can try a basic analysis at:

If you try RISCOSS, please fill the feedback questionnaire, using the Feedback menu option, it won't takes more than 2 minutes.

We are an OSS project too, so, you can find us at https://github.com/RISCOSS. We will continue working on it, and we would be glad if you can join us as a community member for working together. You can also help us trying the public deployment (RISCOSS github analyser/), giving us some feedback (Feedback menu option) or simply adding some issue in the github repository with your suggestions (https://github.com/RISCOSS/riscoss-corporate).

The full version allows to configure the kind of analysis you can do, you can contact us sending me a mail or through our website www.riscoss.eu.

Paper accepted at 8th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2015)

Even I'm not attending, I appear in the  PoEM 2015 promotional video

Towards an OSS Adoption Business Impact Assessment

Lucía Méndez Tapia, Lidia López, Claudia P. Ayala, María Carmela Annosi

Abstract. Nowadays, the adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) by organizations is becoming a strategic need in a wide variety of application areas.  Organizations adopt OSS in very diverse ways. The way in which they adopt OSS affects and shapes their businesses. Therefore, knowing the impact of different OSS adoption strategies in the context of an organization may help improving the processes undertaken inside this organization and ultimately pave the road to strategic moves. However, there is a lack of support for assessing the impact of the OSS adoption over the business of the adopter organizations. Based on the goal-oriented characterization of some OSS adoption strategies, in this paper, we propose a preliminary approach to assess the business impact of the OSS adoption strategies over the adopter organizations. The proposal is based on the Business Model Canvas and graph theory notions to support the elicitation and assessment of the impact of each goal over the adopter organization.  We illustrate the application of the approach in the context of a telecommunications company.