Abstract

Currently, the business benefits of Open Source Software (OSS) adoption are well known among organizations, and several strategies have been identified in practice to procure that adoption process reaches successful results. Each strategy brings different benefits, demands more or less organizational commitment, and changes the management of critical issues as goals, process, risks, resources and human effort in a particular way. Hence, the decision makers need a specific support to handle the complexity that OSS adoption adds to estimation and planning business process. Our work aims to contribute to solve this need, developing a mechanism to identify and quantify the effect of each strategy. Finally, the ranking proposed was applied in a specific organization and the results were useful to better understand the business impact of OSS adoption.

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