Open Source Product Development

Introduction

Open Source Product Development (OSPD) is the development of products (goods and services) that leverages open collaboration and clear documentation as a means to involve large numbers of distributed contributors in the development process. The aim is to produce high quality products at low cost - and to make these products competitive on the open market - by involving sufficient collaboratory effort to make these products better and cheaper than proprietary competition. The 2 main keys to cost reduction lies in Open Design (zero development costs) and design for fabrication via open source micro factories in a scenario of Flexible Fabrication (reduced production costs).

Open Source Product Development Method - Roadmap

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Literature

• Open Source Product Development - Springer Gabler - 2011 - [1]. Table of Contents
• OSPD Current State and Requirements - Bonvoisin and Boujut - File:ICED15.pdf
• Open Design and Crowdsourcing - Thomas J Howard et al - [2] File:Opendesign.pdf
• Seminal paper on new product development (innovation) and Lean Production, as enabled by modularity - From Manufacturing to Design

• Includes Architecture of Participation concepts
• Includes Heavyweight Product Manager concept

• Seminal paper on Open Source Appropriate Technology - Dr. Joshua Pearce - File:Osat.pdf
• Industry Standards -

• Standard waterfall method of development - [3]
• Seminal paper on Concurrent Engineering -
• Seminal book on modular design - Design Rules: The Power of Modularity.
• Seminal work on patterns in architecture - Christopher Alexander - A Pattern Language.

Links

• Robust Design - [4]
• From Opensource.com [5]

• Red Hat's The Open Source Way
• The Open Talent Economy - [6]

Collaboration Platforms

• Mapping_Open_Source_Hardware_Collaboration_Ecologies
• Open!
• Github - Pull Requests in Open Source Hardware.