Saturday, April 23, 2011

Collaborative software development - Samarter Work

I am going to lecture on Service Science to my students on coming Monday as part of the course that I am teaching at San Jose State University. Looking at services creation and delivery as science opens an entire world of opportunity for us. But Can there really be a science of services?

“Wherever there are phenomena, there can be a science to describe and explain those phenomena. Thus, the simplest (and correct) answer to “What is botany?”is, “Botany is the study of plants.”And zoology is the study of animals, astronomy the study of stars, and so on. Phenomena breed sciences.”
-Newell, A., Perlis, A. & Simon, H. A. (1967). Computer Science, Science,157, 1373-1374.

As we all know, services depend heavily on people, technology and co-creation of value. We work collaboratively with the help of technology to create business value for our customers. Growth can only happen when people, technology, value and customers are combined in an innovative way. We hope service science will provide us the process and methodologies to create the innovative way that I am talking. While talking about people and collaboration, software development is one of the most expensive area where the concept is being applied for faster and better value creation. Rational Jazz community is busy creating a whole new breed of collaborative software development tools and techniques. GitHub is a repository for Social Coding and free for Open source and paid for commercial activities. GitHub is an interesting we based source control system written in Ruby on Rails and currently 716,676 people hosting over 2,016,730 git repositories on GitHub. Its popularity has soared with the popularity of Cloud computing and SaaS. Another good place to host code and do collaborative development is Google Code Project Hosting.
The best pat of this smarter software development phenomenon is that you not just get the platform to reach out to million of users with your innovation but get access to thousands of little or big code snippets and projects that  you can use in your research or other money making initiatives. Is that not Smarter Work?

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