Working Teams

Invitation Video

The target audience is new OSE Developers.

Script

Aspirational, productive, efficient, learning environment, rewarding experience.

We are developing a high performing team of open source developers for a distributed, global development effort . For 8 years, we have been working on the Global Village Construction Set - a modular product ecology of critical infrastructure building tools of civilization. We have now developed Extreme Manufacturing techniques for building large machines in a single day, and for building houses in 5 days. We are improving our development process continuously, and our next step (aspiration) is organizing into highly efficient working teams of 12+ people, who takes our development process to 3-month product development cycles. This builds upon extensive prototyping and Proofs of Concept developed over the last 8 years. Our specific goal is Distributive Enterprise - open source blueprints for enterprises. We believe that distributed open source production is the next trillion dollar economy - and that it can fix pressing issues and regenerate the world. The power of open source is spreading practical knowhow and best practice - across all areas of human endeavor - an idea whose time has come.

Our promise to contributors is that of effectiveness and results. We provide basic training that allows for a common development language. We teach basic skills such as CAD, and follow a formal open source product development process based on modular design and concurrent engineering. Process managers oversee progress to achieve timelines and results according to a clear roadmap. We hold people accountable to professional and constructive behavior. We recruit on an ongoing basis for 3-month project sprints, with a minimum volunteering commitment of 10 hours per week.

We develop technology by using an open participatory process the core tool that we use is the wiki witch like Wikipedia is open to editing by anybody where we can upload our pictures work logs documents each person on the team keeps a work log such that any other person on the team and can see transparently what anyone else is doing working teams are typically 12 people and we develop all the different steps of the open-source product development process as Guided by the development spreadsheet. Instructions are found for every step of the development process with key tools being used such as free CAD computer aided design embeddable Google Docs for real-time collaboration and kdenlive for video editing. We are looking for not only technically minded people to help develop our Technologies but also individuals such as writers video editors documentaries and just about anything else because of the scope of the global village Construction Set this to build a new civilization we train people by providing open source 101 instructional tunnel the topics of development including design guides for things like the 3D printer construction site or the tractor construction set we approach projects in a concurrent Engineering Process meaning massive parallel development as we break down Technologies into modules so that different teams and people can work in parallel we build and prototype continuously using Xtreme manufacturing one day builds as the culmination of the development process and finally we Produce open business models for producing any of our machines and one day with extreme manufacturing meaning of group-based social production build that is fun educational inspiring and productive.

Team Requirements

OSE is pursuing development of high performing teams as it moves into 2017. Each team needs to have a minimum level of staffing in order to perform at a high level. The recruiting process will continue until a basic team consisting of Process Manager, Specific (to a particular project) Product Owner, and Engineering Team are secured - in addition to the General Heavyweight Product Manager (xPM - for Extreme Product Manager). This basic team must be a minimum of 3 people in number - not counting the

The Specific Product Owner is required to have full knowledge of requirements for a project, including how the project fits within a product ecology of other projects. The Engineering Team and Process Manager produce documentation, unless a more dedicated Documentation Team is secured. It is understood that Human Resources (HR) works in the background to recruit additional team members - where HR must be sufficiently familiar with Process Management to understand which roles need to be filled in. Curriculum Development must occur prior to a team being formed - as new team members need to be brought up to speed. Curriculum Development includes toolchain instructionals, as well as Design Guides - which team prospective team members about design of a given project. Even experienced Product Designers benefit from the Design Guides - as the OSE version will typically be different than industry standard design. And prior to curriculum being developed for onboarding - the IT Team must have the OSE ISO ready so that everyone has full access to the OSE software stack.

Here are the roles defined:

1. Process Manager- a person who understands the development process of open hardware, as embodied in the Development Template. Assures that both development and its documentation occurs. Maintains
2. Product Owner - stakeholder who is interested in developing a Distributive Enterprise around a given hardware project.
3. Engineering Team - doing CAD, calculations, and