Calculating the Costs of Inner Source Collaboration by Computing the Time Worked

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2022-01-04
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Buchner, Stefan
Riehle, Dirk
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A key part of taxation, controlling, and management of international collaborative programming workflows is determining the costs of a supplied software artifact. The OECD suggests the use of the Cost Plus method for calculating these costs. However, in the past, this method has been implemented using only coarse-grain data from the costs of whole organizational units. Due to the move to inner source software development, we need a much more fine-grain solution for computing the detailed time spent on programming specific components. This is necessary, because a more accurate work time distribution is required to fulfill the fiscal and administrative challenges posed by collaborating across organizational boundaries. In this article, we present a novel method to determine the time spent on an individual code contribution (commit) to a software component for use within cost calculation, especially for taxation purposes. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by application to a real-world data set gathered at a large multi-national corporation. We evaluate our work through feedback received from this corporation and from the German Ministry of Finance.
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Co-Development with Software and Business Engineering Frameworks and Methods, client-supplier relationship, commit transaction history, cost plus method, inner source, transfer pricing
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10 pages
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Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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