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2023-01-04

How open source projects collaborate

The idea of helping your competitors might be hard to accept, but when we work together, we all do better.

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2022-12-07

Manage your project deadlines

Deadlines are easy to set and hard to meet. So how do you set deadlines that aren’t hard to meet? It’s not hard!

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2022-10-12

Why Are There So Many Competing Open Source Projects?

Why do you have so many choices? Explore the reasons, drawbacks, and benefits of competing open source projects.

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2022-09-14

Adding accountability in open source

When everyone is responsible, no one is. That’s why even democratic projects need to make someone accountable for important tasks.

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2022-07-29

Your open source community needs a program manager

My latest article for The Pragmatic Programmers explains why your community needs a program manager and how to find one.

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2022-05-09

A picture is worth a thousand words

Sometimes following your own advice makes you realize that the advice is good. This is one such story.

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2022-03-11

It’s Never Too Late to Fix Your Versioning

Release numbers should clearly communicate the scope of changes. If they don’t, you can fix that any time.

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2022-01-28

Using conferences for connections

I no longer primarily attend conferences for the talks. Now I attend to make and reinforce connections with community members.

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2022-01-19

Spreading the work with infrequent contributors

Over on The Pragmatic Programmers, I wrote an article about spreading the work fairly when you have infrequent contributors. This is a common issue in open source projects that have people who work on them as their full-time job. Contributors are the lifeblood of an open source community. You want to attract and retain people so that the project is...

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2022-01-07

How to Tell If You Are a Successful Program Manager

One of the questions I often ask when discussing a new plan is “how will we know if we’re successful?” The same question applies to your role as a program manager. I just published an article about how I evaluate myself over at the Pragmatic Programmers blog. Computers are difficult and people are difficult and when you put people together...

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