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  • On the importance of sound architectural practices in the use of OSS in software product lines
    Ali Babar, Muhammad; Fitzgerald, Brian; Agerfalk, Par J.; Lundell, Bjorn (2007)
    Software Product Line (SPL) and Open Source Software (OSS) have emerged as successful modes of developing software. Although they appear to differ in terms of development principles and processes, researchers and practitioners ...
  • Open source application spaces
    Feller, Joseph; Fitzgerald, Brian; Hissam, Karim; Scacchi, Walt (Assocation for Computing Machinery, 2005)
    Building on the success of the first four workshops in the series, which were held at ICSE 2001 (Toronto), ICSE 2002 (Orlando), ICSE 2003 (Portland) and ICSE 2004 (Edinburgh), the 5th Workshop on Open Source Software ...
  • Open source in the software product line:an inevitable trajectory?
    Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian; Lings, Brian; O'Brien, Liam; Thiel, Steffen (2006)
  • Open source software: lessons from and for software engineering
    Fitzgerald, Brian (IEEE Computer Society, 2011)
    Open source software can elicit strongly contrasting reactions. Advocates claim that OSS is high-quality software produced on a rapid time scale and for free or at very low cost by extremely talented developers. At the ...
  • Open-sourcing as offshore outsourcing strategy
    Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian; Holmstrom Olsson, Helena; Ó Conchúir, Eoin (2006)
    This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of open source as an offshore outsourcing strategy – open-sourcing as we term it here. Building on previous research on IS outsourcing, a theoretical ...
  • Open-sourcing in the Celtix project: a case of outsourcing to an unknown workforce
    Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian; Holmstrom Olsson, Helena; Ó Conchúir, Eoin (2006)
    This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of open source as an offshore outsourcing strategy – open-sourcing as we term it here. Building on previous research on IS outsourcing, a theoretical ...
  • Outsourcing to an unknown workforce: exploring opensourcing as a global sourcing strategy
    Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian (Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2008)
    This paper presents a psychological contract perspective on the use of the open source development model as a global sourcing strategy--opensourcing, as we term it here--whereby commercial companies and open source communities ...
  • A reference model for successful distributed development of software systems
    Lings, Brian; Lundell, Bjorn; Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian (IEEE Computer Society, 2007)
    Distributed Development (DD) of Software Systems is an issue of increasing significance for organisations today, all the more so given the current trend towards globalisation. In this paper we present a reference model ...
  • The role of software engineering in future automotive systems development
    Clarke, Siobhán; Fitzgerald, Brian; Nixon, Paddy; Pohl, Klaus; Ryan, Kevin; Sinclair, David; Thiel, Steffen (SAE International, 2008)
    The amount and complexity of software in automotive systems is constantly increasing. Today’s luxury cars include numerous electronic control units. A large part of the functionality of these units is driven by software. In ...
  • Scaling agile methods to regulated environments: an industry case study
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Stol, Klaas-Jan; O'Sullivan, Ryan; O'Brien, Donal (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)
    Agile development methods are growing in popularity with a recent survey reporting that more than 80% of organizations now following an agile approach. Agile methods were seen initially as best suited to small, co-located ...
  • Software crisis 2.0
    Fitzgerald, Brian (IEEE Computer Society, 2012)
    Although only about 50 years old, the software domain has already endured one well documented crisis, which was identified early in its evolution in the 1960s. Simply summarised, the initial software crisis – Software ...
  • The status of the IS field: historical perspective and practical orientation
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Adam, Frédéric (Professor Tom Wilson of the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, 2000)
    This paper provides a detailed assessment of the current status of the Information Systems (IS) field by tracing its historical evolution. It uses lessons drawn from the history of another social science, sociology, to ...
  • A study of the use of agile methods within Intel
    Fitzgerald, Brian; Hartnett, Gerard (Springer, 2005)
    This study investzgated the use of the agile methods, eXtremeprogramming (XP) and Scrum, at the Intel Network Processor Diwsion engineering team based in Shannon, Ireland over a three-yearperiod The study is noteworthy as ...
  • Supporting product development with software from the bazaar
    Stol, Klaas-Jan (University of Limerick, 2011)
    THERE ARE VARIOUS scenarios for a software development organisation to adopt Open Source Software (OSS). One scenario is the adoption of OSS products in order to integrate them as components into a final software product. ...
  • Ten strategies for successful distributed development
    Lings, Brian; Lundell, Bjorn; Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian (2006)
    This paper presents an overview of the field of distributed development of software systems and applications (DD). Based on an analysis of the published literature, including its use in different industrial contexts, we ...
  • Toward a conceptual framework of agile methods: a study of agility in different disciplines
    Conboy, Kieran; Fitzgerald, Brian (Association for Computing Machinery, 2004)
    Since the software crisis of the 1960’s, numerous methodologies have been developed to impose a disciplined process upon software development. It is now widely accepted that these methodologies are unsuccessful and ...
  • Towards a knowledge typology of new product development engineering processes
    Donnellan, Brian; Fitzgerald, Brian (IEEE Computer Society, 2004)
    In today’s competitive and turbulent environment companies engaged in New Product Development (NPD) need tu have a sophisticated understanding of the types of knowledge critical to the each phase of the NPD process. These ...
  • The transformation of open source software
    Fitzgerald, Brian (Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2006)
    A frequent characterization of open source software is the somewhat outdated, mythical one of a collective of supremely talented software hackers freely volunteering their services to produce uniformly high-quality software. ...
  • Two-stage offshoring: an investigation of the Irish bridge
    Holmstrom Olsson, Helena; Ó Conchúir, Eoin; Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian (Management Information Systems Research Center, University of Minnesota, 2008)
    This paper investigates two-stage offshoring as experienced by the Irish sites of two large global companies, headquartered in the United States, with significant software development operations. As part of these companies, ...
  • Uncovering theories in software engineering
    Stol, Klaas-Jan; Fitzgerald, Brian (IEEE Computer Society, 2013)
    There has been a growing interest in the role of theory within Software Engineering (SE) research. For several decades, researchers within the SE research community have argued that, to become a real engineering science, ...

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