Mixing cloud computing with crowdsourcing can benefit development
June 14, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Wayne Kernochan.
Over the last few years, common techniques for implementing a public, private or hybrid cloud have become well-known. How does crowdsourcing work with the cloud? Plugging your organization into the wealth of cloud expertise residing outside your enterprise can be a bit unnerving. There is a careful balance of the need to "vet" and monitor individual developers and the urge to seek maximum effectiveness by casting the widest net possible.
The result is a set of best practices that Sloan Management Review (Winter, 2013) refers to as "global crowd development." While these best practices apply across a wide range of product development efforts, they fit particularly well with cloud implementation. Involving, as it typically does, virtualization of existing software and customization of additional software allows it to play on the very cloud that supports the new global workforce. And it is definitely global. User case studies testify these development efforts encompass a wide area and are not country-specific, as in the days of offshoring…
Approaches to crowdsourcing cloud development
For those fully committed to out-of-company implementation, the "microsource" model often works. Software platforms allow intermediation between IT and the individual developers or small development firms, allowing some knowledge of the developers involved…
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