Business Success with Open Source

Functions of an OSPO

As previously mentioned, the functions that an OSPO performs depend entirely upon the strategic needs of the company. While it’s possible for an OSPO to dedicate itself purely to a single role (compliance, for instance), this is rare. OSPOs almost always are cross-functional, and as such all OSPO team members require skills in communication and facilitation. In a single day the members of an OSPO may advise product development about how to release a utility as a publicly available free and open source project, revise marketing copy to more accurately describe a product based around a FOSS project, collaborate with security to manage patching a Free Software component that’s updated to resolve a vulnerability, train presales ...