Category: staffing
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Projects are worked on in fits and starts
Companies whose business is designing, developing, and maintaining custom software applications (i.e., a software house) have the difficult job of keeping their expensive employees busy with paying work. Work on an existing project may be held up for various reasons, and the start date of new projects is invariably uncertain. A solution to the on/off…
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Estimating Open source project lifecycle using the Bass model
Is it possible to reliably estimate the elapsed time that a multi-person Open source project spends under major active development, once it has been running for a year or so, and attracted some developers? The paper Project Life Cycles in Open-Source Software by Das, Ieroshenko, Jain, Qiu, Chin, and Granger fits a Bass diffusion model…