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V viewpoints DOI:10.1145/2661051 Article development led by queue.acm.org George V. Neville-Neil Kode Vicious Outsourcing Responsibility Dear KV, I have been assigned to help with a new project and have been looking over the admittedly skimpy documentation the team has placed on the internal wiki. I spent a day or so staring at what seemed to be a long list of open source projects the project team members intend to integrate into the system they have been building, but I could not find where their original work was described. I asked one of the project team members where I might find that documentation and was told there really is not much they need to document, because all the features they need are available in various projects on github. I really do not get why people do not understand that outsourcing work also means outsourcing responsibility, and that in a software project, responsibility and accountability are paramount. Feeling a Sense of Responsibility Dear Responsible, While it might seem that the advent of the "fork me on github" style of system design is a new thing, I, unfortunately, have to assure you it is not. Since the invention of the software
Communications of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Sep 23, 2014
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