Business Success with Open Source

Gather Knowledge and Collaborate for the Best P&P

Beyond the obvious “what do we do and when,” you’ll need other information for creating effective inbound FOSS policies for your company. Gathering this information in advance provides the context for the P&P. This context shapes the policies and procedures in such a way that they’re more applicable and more likely to be applied correctly, and they’ll require less active enforcement.

Not Everything Needs P&P…or Does It?

It can be tempting to define everything in a policy or procedure, but is it necessary? If you’re in a highly regulated industry, the answer may be yes, absolutely, but for others it may not. Resist the P&P proliferation urge. Each policy and procedure brings with it its own costs ...