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Title:	Aligning business goals and risks in OSS adoption
Author:	Costal Costa, Dolors; López Cuesta, Lidia; Morandini, Mirko; Siena, Alberto; Annosi, Maria Carmela; Gross, Daniel; Méndez Tapia, Emma Lucía; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Susi, Angelo
Other authors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. inSSIDE - integrated Software, Service, Information and Data Engineering
Abstract:	Increasing adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) requires a change in the organizational culture and reshaping IT decision-makers mindset. Adopting OSS software components introduces some risks that can affect the adopter organization’s business goals, therefore they need to be considered. To assess these risks, it is required to understand the socio-technical structures that interrelate the stakeholders in the OSS ecosystem, and how these structures may propagate the potential risks to them. In this paper, we study the connection be-tween OSS adoption risks and OSS adopter organizations’ business goals. We propose a model-based approach and analysis framework that combines two ex-isting frameworks: the i* framework to model and reason about business goals, and the RiskML notation to represent and analyse OSS adoption risks. We illus-trate our approach with data drawn from an industrial partner organization in a joint EU project.
Abstract:	Peer Reviewed
Subject(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Enginyeria del software -Open source software -Object-oriented programming (Computer science) -Risk analysis -i* framework -i-star -Programari lliure -Programació orientada a l'objecte (Informàtica)
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Document type:	Article - Submitted version Conference Object
Published by:	Springer International Publishing
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