Create your own processes

If you are specialised in a specific discipline, contributing to Open metoCube is a way to demonstrate your knowledge, promote your activity and create business opportunities.

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sources & contributors

Cornell University

Gedpro

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Comment on existing processes

If you have anything to say on a specific process you can leave comments and help the author enhance it. Or if you know of any resource in the Internet that adds value to a procedure you can let the author know.

Explore the process repository

Open metoCube is aimed at specialists (organizations or individuals) in a specific discipline with the knowledge needed to create a set of process descriptions that help organizations achieve higher level of operating maturity in that area.

Who can contribute?

Everyone is invited to contribute. Typical contributors to the program are:

• Consulting or training companies specialised in a specific discipline
• Independent professionals with expertise in a specifica area
• Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) wanting to provide their customers with a methodology that adds value to their current offering
• Academics wanting to create procedures as educational materials
• Students developing course work or thesis

What are the benefits for contributors?

• Contribute to a project that aims to collaboratively build the most complete body of procedures available in the world. Your procedures will help organizations and people throughout the world to work more efficiently
• By sharing your processes you gather feedback from users all over the world. Your process descriptions create more value in Open metoCube than in your hard disk and most procedures don't mean a competitive advantage to your company
• Contributors position theirselves as specialists in a specific discipline and demonstrate their knowledge by creating procedures that embed a deep discipline knowledge.
  
• Open Models is public and authors are clearly credited, so it is a way to obtain promotion for your professional activity
• Companies interested in your procedures can ask you to help them adapt and implement the procedures. You can reach companies in regions outside of your typical operations scope.
  

Can I make money around my contributions to Open metoCube?

Absolutely. There are several motivations for contributing to Open metoCube (such as sharing your knowledge with the world or promoting a business) and making money is clearly one of them.

In fact we encourage you to do so (in a similar way to which money is made around open source software).

The main way of generating revenues around Open Models content is by offering services. For example GEDPRO is a consulting company that has created this Project Management Methodology in Open Models, and offers professional services to organizations willing to implement it. This kind of professional services can be provided remotely using telephony over the Internet and screen sharing tools.

What license is used in Open Models?

Content contributed to Open metoCube is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Before collaborating authors must make sure they understand how it works by reading the license page.

What languages can I use for my content?

You can create content in any language. You can also contribute by translating existing content to other languages.

How can I contribute?