Katja Henttonen and Jukka Kääriäinen from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd at Mindtrek 2016. Topic of speech: Lifecycle management for government- driven open source projects

1. VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND LTD
Lifecycle management for government-
driven open source projects
Katja Henttonen ja Jukka Kääriäinen

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GOVERMENT-DRIVEN OSS: WHY AND WHEN?
Buy
Build
Is a simple
’off-the-self’
solution
available?
Collaborate
Do other
public sector
agents have
similar
needs?
Build the software
only once with tax
payers’ money!

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GOVERMENT-DRIVEN OSS IS GROWING!

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What is collaborative lifecycle management?
Co-ordinated governance effort to ensure that
software evolves into a desirable direction (e.g.
conflict resolution, continuity of support etc)
This is not new, but
public sector agents
often lack know-how
on software lifecycle
management

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COLLABORATIVE LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT
(CO-SLM) FRAMEWORK
CO-SLM
model x
Tailor
CO-SLM model for
community / SW product x
Community x: partners, systems, special
characteristics, ……
Assign
Deploy &
modify
SW product management
plan for community / SW
product x
CO-SLM framework
- Plan template
- Guidance
- Examples
CO-SLM framework helps in real-life situation where public-sector and private organisations wish
to maintain and further develop software collaboratively.

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MAKE A PRODUCT MANAGEMENT PLAN!
 Basic information: Describes the software that will be
managed. What tools/repositories will be used for
management?
 Roles and organisations: Assigning concrete
organisations/persons for product management roles.
 Lifecycle management: Describes how community, steering
group, product manager, etc. operate to enable the
coordinated evolution of SW product
 Financing practices: How the development and maintenance
of SW product is financed? How the product management
activities are financed?
 Documentation: What documentation is available on the SW
product? Where it is and who has the responsibility for
updating it?

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MORE INFORMATION
ONLINE SOURCES (in Finnish)
 VTT sites: http://www.vtt.fi/sites/avoimen-tuotteen-hallinta/
 JulkiICTWiki: https://wiki.julkict.fi/julkict/projektit/avoimen-
tuotteen-hallinta
CONTACT:
 Katja Henttonen, email (@vtt.fi), twitter (katjahenttonen)
 Jukka Kääriäinen (email @vtt.fi)

8. THANK YOU!