Fwd: FYI: Open Source Program Management Survey 2018 Results
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Chris Aniszczyk
Aug 30, 2018, 1:35:55 PM8/30/18
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FYI
- Open source use has become commonplace among tech and non-tech companies alike with 72% of companies frequently using open source for non-commercial or internal reasons and 55% using open source for commercial products.
- Open source programs are very critical or extremely critical to the success of engineering and product teams according to 59% of respondents.
The top three benefits of managing an open source program are awareness of open source usage/dependencies, increased developer agility/speed, and better license compliance.
- Large companies are about twice as likely to run an open source program than smaller companies (63 percent vs. 37 percent).
- Open source programs tend to start informally as a working group or a few key open source developers and then evolve into formal programs over time, typically within a company’s software engineering or development department (about 41 percent of programs).
- The benefits of an open source program are widely known, with 70% of those without a program believing it would have a positive impact in their company, despite any barriers to creating it.
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From: Chris Aniszczyk <canis...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:35 AM
Subject: FYI: Open Source Program Management Survey 2018 Results
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From: Chris Aniszczyk <canis...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:35 AM
Subject: FYI: Open Source Program Management Survey 2018 Results
To: TODO Private <private-...@googlegroups.com>
The TODO Group (in partnership with The New Stack) published results from the first survey on open source program management:
Key findings include:
- Open source use has become commonplace among tech and non-tech companies alike with 72% of companies frequently using open source for non-commercial or internal reasons and 55% using open source for commercial products.
- Open source programs are very critical or extremely critical to the success of engineering and product teams according to 59% of respondents.
The top three benefits of managing an open source program are awareness of open source usage/dependencies, increased developer agility/speed, and better license compliance.
- Large companies are about twice as likely to run an open source program than smaller companies (63 percent vs. 37 percent).
- Open source programs tend to start informally as a working group or a few key open source developers and then evolve into formal programs over time, typically within a company’s software engineering or development department (about 41 percent of programs).
- The benefits of an open source program are widely known, with 70% of those without a program believing it would have a positive impact in their company, despite any barriers to creating it.
We also open source the survey results and charts here:
Here are the charts we created:
Thanks to everyone who helped formulate the questions and our first take on this, I look forward to us improving the survey next year.
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