... write an atricle riding on the open source buzz.
Step 2: Get free publicity for consultancy
Step 3: Profit!

It's nothing to do with learning from open source management techniques, it's about employing solid engineering principles. Stating that having good documentation will help a project? Anyone (with a brain) think otherwise?

"Yet it is rare to find a corporate environment where the project team has anything approaching the level of planning, documentation, or review found in successful open source projects."

This certainly doesn't match my experience of corporate projects, but then I may have just been fortunate.

One might equally say "yet it's rare to find an open source project where the project team has anything approaching the level of planning, documentation, or review found in a successful corporate project".

I don't think it's anything to do with whether a project is open source or not .. there are good and bad projects in both the open source arena and the corporate arena. The problem isn't learning from one or the other, it's actually applying the processes and management techniques which are well know, well proved, have been around forever but aren't always employed.

As someone pointed out, Mythical Man Month is a great place to start. I'll take that over 5 pages or general conjecture from any day.