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