Measuring Success in Open Source Projects - OW2Con 2017

Slides for "Measuring Success in Open Source Projects" talk at OW2Con 2017

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1. Measuring Success in Open Source projects Manrique López @jsmanrique jsmanrique at bitergia dot com https://speakerdeck.com/bitergia OW2Con, Paris, June 2017
2. /happy birthday
3. /happy birthday Bitergia We are also celebrating!
4. Success What does it mean?
5. /goals “...accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption…” “...global development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud…” “...open, collaborative software development projects…” Put your project logo here Put your project vision/purpose here “...promote the development of open-source middleware, generic business applications, cloud computing platforms and foster a vibrant community and business ecosystem…”
6. /success What does success mean for you?
7. Measuring Success “Without data, you are just another person with an opinion” W. Edwards Deming Some examples
8. /community basic numbers
9. /activity basic numbers
10. /performance
11. /attraction - retention - network
12. /community dependency KPIs Onion model ASF Pony factor Bitergia Elephant factor Bitergia Zapata factor Linux Kernel Zapata factor ~ 200 Bitergia United Fruit Company factor Linux Kernel UFCo factor ~ 10 Linux kernel ownership analysis: linux.biterg.io 7 core ~ 40 regular ~ 85 casual Pony factor: 1 Elephant factor: 2
13. /Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Increase enterprises involvement in Open Source software development
14. /CNCF/Kubernetes Reduce single company dependency
15. /CNCF/Kubernetes Reduce single company dependency
16. /Puppet Increase participation beyond coding
17. /Puppet Increase participation beyond coding
18. /OpenStack Increase contributions gender diversity
19. /BBVA Understand an ecosystem to become a leader
20. Measuring Success “If you can not measure it, you can not improve it” Lord Kelvin The Bitergian way
21. /bitergia Software Development Analytics for your peace of mind
22. /bitergia Software Development Analytics for your peace of mind
23. /collecting data “Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, …” grimoirelab.github.io 100% free, open source software
24. /measuring “Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community” Henry Louis Gates Jr., IBM/Linux Commercial Community Activity Performance
25. /measuring “Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community” Henry Louis Gates Jr., IBM/Linux Commercial Community Activity Performance Transparency Awareness Governance support Motivational
26. Conclusions Methodology
27. /methodology Governance -> Goals <- Questions <- Metrics 1. Develop a set of corporate, division and project business goals and associated measurement goals for productivity and quality 2. Generate questions (based on models) that define those goals as completely as possible in a quantifiable way 3. Specify the measures needed to be collected to answer those questions and track process and product conformance to the goals 4. Develop mechanisms for data collection 5. Collect, validate and analyze the data in real time to provide feedback to projects for corrective action 6. Analyze the data in a post mortem fashion to assess conformance to the goals and to make recommendations for future improvements
28. /take care “Human beings adjust behavior based on the metrics they’re held against. Anything you measure will impel a person to optimize his score on that metric. What you measure is what you’ll get. Period”. You Are What You Measure by Dan Ariely
29. /look for your data Your project data is already there…
30. Take care of your project! @bitergia jsmanrique@bitergia.com