The Research Of Open Source Sotfware Project Management

With the development of computer technology, technical bottleneck has moved from theinitial hardware manufacturers gradually began more transferred to the computer software todevelop software with core strengths to become the secret of success in today’s worldcomputer industry. For example: IBM is mainly engaged in computer manufacturing,software earnings is relatively small, but with the development of the industry, began to sellits hardware business and instead focus on computer software and services. Well-knowncomputer companies Microsoft, Google is the world’s software and services for theprofitability of the core. Therefore, the development trend of the research software andrelated technologies have become a major computer companies and research institutes tocompete on the subject. The key issues that software project management is management ofthe academic research. The emergence of open source software, the traditional commercialsoftware company has been challenged. But at the same time open-source software projectmanagement is a difficult issue, which is presented in this study.Open source and free software is of great significance in the history of the developmentof computer software, a unique source code and other closed-source software has its uniqueadvantages and disadvantages compared. The type of software project management, due tothe relative shortage of funds, while allowing the open source community of developersinvolved in the development of ways to make their project management to a certain degree ofdifficulty in the field of project management, little research in this area. Therefore, thesummary of previous experience and lessons learned through the project management theoryand related models developed open source software project management method has practicalsignificance.Firstly, the research literature and results at home and abroad on open source softwareproject management and summarized, and then in-depth study of the difference between opensource software project management and software project management. Among them, theanalysis of the status of open source software project management, and lists the problems ofopen source software project management. Which lists the coping strategies of somecommercial software companies and open source software projects. Contrast to the MicrosoftWindows family of products and market share of browser products to initially reveal the share of open source software. And open source software projects, profitability analysis, toidentify a viable path to profitability, that is, to provide fee-based service and technicalsupport, or large-scale commercial software company acquisitions. Finally, the open-sourcesoftware projects of scientific management methods and management tools. Through the useof agile project management software on an open source software project managementprocess to demonstrate the advantages and possibilities of open source software projectmanagement using the Scrum method, and pointed out several key points to note in theprocess of using this method, such as: the cycle of the project meetings, sprint timing andother purpose of using agile software development methods, and can adapt to change as soonas possible in its, rather than a short period of time to develop software products.This study found that by using the Scrum agile software development methods and theirassociated management software, the transfer of certain changes and focus to adapt to theneeds of open source software project management.