The make program is widely used in the software industry to reduce compilation time in large projects. Make skips source files that would have compiled to the same result as in the previous build. (Or so it is hoped, at least.) The crucial issue of safeness of omitting a full build-from-scratch...

Delegation of authority is the basic approach to coordination of work in FreeBSD, an open source software (OSS) project that develops and maintains an operating system. This essay combines a software engineering perspective with a knowledge creation perspective to discuss three central...

Presents a case on Danish potted plants distribution. The company, GASA‐Group Denmark, is the dominating distributor of Danish potted plants to all of Europe with a total turnover of approximately DKK2.8 billion. The company’s management is planning a long‐term strategy, and the paper...