diff --git a/oss2018/content/06-conclusion.tex b/oss2018/content/06-conclusion.tex index f186854..b0d92d4 100644 --- a/oss2018/content/06-conclusion.tex +++ b/oss2018/content/06-conclusion.tex @@ -2,42 +2,43 @@ \label{sec:conclusion} Organizational culture is built and reinforced every life year of a large-size -organization. These cultural values reflect on the internal management processes -and the norms of communication among its members. In the context of software -development projects, each institution adopts development methods that best meet -its managerial procedures and organizational routines. When two large-size -organizations decide to develop a solution collaboratively, the development -methods and workflow of one may conflict with the interests of the other. In a -case of government-academia collaboration, conciliating their different -management processes is crucial, since the poor and unadaptable management could -lead the project to fail, resulting in the waste of population-funded resources. +organization. These cultural values reflect on the internal management +processes and the norms of communication among its members. In the context of +software development projects, each institution adopts development methods that +best meet its managerial procedures and organizational routines. When two +large-size organizations decide to develop a solution collaboratively, the +development methods and workflow of one may conflict with the interests of the +other. In a case of government-academia collaboration, conciliating their +different management processes is crucial, since the weak and unadaptable +management could lead the project to fail, resulting in the waste of +population-funded resources. -In this work, we investigated the management method employed at the SPB project, -a partnership between the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, the University of -Brasília and the University of São Paulo. This method was empirically built -using OSS and agile development references. As a result of this study, we -identified a set of best practices which improves the workflow and -relationship between the organizations involved. +We investigated the management method employed at the SPB portal project, a +partnership between the Brazilian government and universities. This approach +was empirically built using FLOSS and agile development practices and values. +As a result, we identified a set of best practices which improves the workflow +and relationship between the organizations involved. Regarding our first research question \textit{How to introduce open source and -agile best practices into government-academia collaboration project?} we +agile best practices into government-academia collaboration project?}, we examined the SPB project and identified three macro-decisions taken by the academic coordinators that led them to intuitively and non-systematically adopt -agile and open source practices in the development process. We extracted nine -best management practices and verified their effective use collecting data from -the management tool and interviewing the project participants. +FLOSS and agile practices in the development process. We extracted nine best +management practices and verified their efficient use collecting data from the +management tool and interviewing the project participants. -The interviewed responses allowed us to understand how OSS and agile practices -have benefited the people and project management. Considering the evidence found, we +The interviewed responses allowed us to understand how FLOSS and agile +practices have benefited the people and project management. Based on that, we answered our second research question \textit{What practices would favor -effective team management in government-academia collaborative project?}. As a -result, we listed in Table \ref{practices-table} eleven benefits obtained from -the use of the nine practices aforementioned. +effective team management in government-academia collaborative project?}, +making to explicit in Table \ref{practices-table} eleven benefits obtained from +the use of the nine best practices aforementioned. Finally, we collected a significant amount of data and testimonials related to the teaching of software engineering. We consider that the project studied is -also an educational case, it is an example of how to teach information -technology students agile and open source methodologies applied to -production-level software development. As future work, we intend to analyze this -collected information to propose improvements in the teaching of software -engineering for undergraduates. +also an educational case. It is an example of how to teach information +technology students FLOSS and agile approaches applied to production-level +software development. As future work, we intend to analyze this collected +information to propose improvements in the teaching of software engineering for +undergraduates. + -- libgit2 0.21.2