diff --git a/oss2018/content/06-conclusion.tex b/oss2018/content/06-conclusion.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c331a97 --- /dev/null +++ b/oss2018/content/06-conclusion.tex @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Organizational culture is built and reinforced every life year of a large-size +organization. These cultural values ​reflect on the internal management processes +and in 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 management +methods and workflow of one may conflict with the interests of the other. This +problem becomes crucial when it involves collaboration between government and +academia. The poor and unadaptable management could lead the project to fail, +resulting in a waste of population-funded resources. + +In this study, we investigated the SPB project, a collaborative project between +the Brazilian Ministry of Planning and two Brazilian universities, the +University of Brasília and the University of São Paulo. In this project, the +coordinators, advised by IT market developers, used management and communication +practices from OSS projects to improve 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 +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. + +Analyzing the interview responses we can understand how OSS and agile practices +have benefited people and project management. Considering the evidence found, we +answered our second research question, \textit{What practices would favor +effective team management in government-academia collaborative project?}. As a +result, we listed eleven benefits obtained from the use of the nine practices +aforementioned. + +Finally, we collected a significant amount of data and testimonials in this work +related to the teaching of software engineering. We consider that the project +studied is also an educational case. The SPB project 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. -- libgit2 0.21.2