Three Process Perspectives: Organizations, Teams, and People
Annals of Software Engineering
CMMI(R): Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement (2nd Edition) (The SEI Series in Software Engineering)
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Learning path to an emergent ecosystem: the Brazilian public software experience
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
Software ecosystems - A systematic literature review
Journal of Systems and Software
3D technologies and the new digital ecosystem: a Brazilian experience
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
The public software ecosystem: exploratory survey
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
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This work presents a case of an innovative Brazilian experience of use of free software in public administration as an emergent ecosystem, and the attempt to establish a quality framework for that. It describes a new concept named Brazilian Public Software (BPS) developed by policy makers of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management. At the beginning of the century, Brazilian policy makers were concerned with the limitations of the Free Software Model of Production (FSMP) to provide software to public administration. Issues such as installation and operational support, quality of software (users interfaces, manuals) and bugs were not effectively solved by the FSPM alone. They then shaped the Brazilian Public Software, which is based on code opening (FSPM), but includes some additional duties to the entity that makes the software available. To support and to make the concept operational and institutional, an environment was formed and so a virtual ambience named Brazilian Public Software Portal (BPSP) began to exist. Since their beginning in the end of 2006, the BPSP has increased its number of associates to 84,000 users, and today it has 40 software solutions available, in many technological areas: geo-processing, health, public town management (sanitation, hospitals management, data management, etc). Even software solutions originated from private entities that had public interest as textual database and web application server ambience. The solutions are used not only by governmental agencies but also by small and medium-sized companies and other kinds of organizations. Other related interest groups emerged inside the BPS: 4CMBr, driven to municipalities; Virtual Market focused on services; 5CQualiBr devoted to the quality of the software in a large sense and to the ecosystem sustaintability. Quality and quality assurance are a challenge in this kind of ecosystem. In this work we will describe the solutions and findings in the Quality Framework to the BPS ecosystem.