Presentation given by Cédric Thomas, OW2 CEO and Stéphane Laurière, OW2 CTO at OW2con'17, June 26-27, 2017, in Paris.

1. The OW2 Market Readiness Levels
Improving Productivity and
Market Readiness of OW2 projects
Cédric Thomas, Stéphane Laurière, OW2
OW2con'17
Paris, 26-27 June, 2017

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Agenda
OSS Projects and the Value Chain
The OW2 OSCAR Approach
Evaluating Market Readiness
The OW2 Market Readiness Levels

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Project categories
Code to product
Supporting market readiness
OSS Projects and
the Value Chain

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Community projects

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Enterprise projects

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Collaborative projects

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Software is Code

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What is a Software Product?
Developer Customer

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What makes a Software Product?
Developer Customer
Documentation
Testing
Upgrades Training Etc.
Pricing Contracts Support Expertise
Packaging

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Research &
Development
Code
POCs
Use-cases
Demonstrators
Documentation
Testing
Upgrades
Bug-fixing
Training
Support
Packaging
Casestudies
Collateral
Pricing
Contracts
Earlyadopters
Etc.
Predictability
Quality
Trust
Without the code, the rest does not exist,but it's the rest that gives market value to the code
Delivery
Challenge
What creates value?
Market Value
OSS

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Research &
Development
Code
POCs
Use-cases
Demonstrators
Documentation
Roadmap
Upgrades
Bug-fixing
Training
Support
Packaging
Casestudies
Collateral
Pricing
Contracts
Earlyadopters
Etc.
Predictability
Quality
Trust
Delivery
Challenge
Market Value
Who creates value?
The ecosystem
Contributors
Distrib. Vendors
Open Source Orgs.
Fiduciary Services Users
Systems Integrators

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Research &
Development
Code
POCs
Use-cases
Demonstrators
Documentation
Roadmap
Upgrades
Bug-fixing
Training
Support
Packaging
Casestudies
Collateral
Pricing
Contracts
Earlyadopters
Etc.
Predictability
Quality
Trust
OW2 is an ecosystem platform that helps create value in open source projects
Delivery
ChallengeCollaborative Development Technical Resources
Governance, Projects, Initiatives, Quality Program
Communication, Outreach, Marketplace
OSCAR
Market Value
Supporting market readiness
and value creation

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More than just TRL
Market readiness
Promotes best practices
The OW2 Open Source
Capability Assessment
Radar (OSCAR)

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A Methodology
and a Platform
Requirements
Metrics
Visual Reporting
Risk analysis
OMMForm
Metrics / Scorecards
Documentation
Privacy / GDPR
Standards
Licenses and IP
Fossology
SonarQube
Static code analysis
Code / Commits / Bugs
Testing / CI / Release
Cloud Deployment
OMMForm
Governance Engineering
● Quality assessment
tools
● Check-list of best
practices to reach
market maturity

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Maturity
Assessment
Web Form

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Maturity
Assessment
Upcoming CII input

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License analysis

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Static code
analysis

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Risk Models

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Maturity
Scorecard

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Technology Readiness Level
Market readiness
Open source readiness
Evaluating Market
Readiness

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Technology Readiness
Levels
A type of measurement system
used to estimate the maturity level of
a particular technology
In technology, there are usually
nine readiness levels. TRL 1 is the
lowest and TRL 9 is the highest.
A TRL number is obtained once the
description has been achieved.
For example, successfully
achieving TRL 4 does not move the
technology to TRL 5.
Pioneered by NASA in the 80’s.
Adopted by the DOE and DOD for
procurement and management of
complex systems.
Idea
(useless)
Operational
(useful)

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NASA/DOD TRL
http://www.frankichamaki.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/nasa-trl.jpg

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http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/ScienceAndEngineeringTechnology/Documents/Coyle%20NDIA.pdf

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https://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/irl.jpg
Investment Readiness
Level

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MRL 1
… to MRL 9
The OW2 Market
Readiness Levels

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MRL 1
“Basic Principles”
Research Methodology
& Algorithms
Basic R&D code developed
CHOReOS
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 2
“Application Formulation”
Development POC
Basic R&D code developed with one
demonstrated use case, some documentation
DSpot
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 3
“Proof of Concept”
Fledgeling
Usefulness
Golden Scenario
One declared user (can be internal) with
declared project leader
PItest
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 4
“Lab Validation”
Usefulness
Demonstrated
MVP Defined
Several users, project leadership well
established
CLIF, Hammr
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 5
Relevant Envt
Validation
Market Opening User Interface
Maturing
Some customers, recent market opening, un-
proven governance
XXX
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 6
“Proven Demo”
Market Broadening Growing
Interoperability
Early customer base and fledgeling financing or
active community support, Start-up
SeedStack, Lutece
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 7
“Prototype in Space”
Business Build-up Full Q&A
Early customer base and fledgeling financing or
active community support, Start-up
Rocket.Chat
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 8
“Flight Qualified”
Actively Competitive Building Range
(Products/Features)
Early customer base, appropriate financing or
active community support, recognized software
OW2 ProActive
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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MRL 9
“Flight Proven” Established Player
Platform, Sub-Project
Generation
Established product with properly financed and
organized Business support Customer base,
Repeat sales and Market recognition
SagoBI, XWiki, BonitaSoft
Examples
Rationale
Business Scale Techno Scale

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Summary

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Summary Open source software come in
different value chains
OSCAR approach to support OW2
code base
In search of the OSS market
readiness scale
Defining the OW2 Market
Readiness Levels

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