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Program Management for Open Source Projects
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Program Management for Open Source Projects

by Ben Cotton
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
5h 27m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Why Program Management Is Important

Open source projects produce software, but they’re run by people. People are dynamic and sometimes unpredictable. The more people are involved, the more unpredictable the project becomes. As a program manager, you bring order to the chaos. You don’t do this by imposing order from the top down—that’s not how open source projects work. Instead, you give structure to the agreements of the community.

When you’re doing your job well, it can appear effortless. But I suspect that most projects that thrive in the long term aren’t successful by accident. They don’t keep everything working smoothly without effort. Instead, someone (or several people) does the work to coordinate effort across the project. And that can ...

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