Companies can struggle to get their internal operations working smoothly. Cooperation between departments is essential. A silo mentality can easily occur when different groups or departments within an organisation do not share knowledge or information. This influences performance negatively and can contribute to a failing corporate culture. The proactive development of a user community and the use of open source collaborative strategies will greatly benefit any organisation. InnerSource takes the lessons learned from open source projects and applies them to the internal company community or culture. InnerSource can be a great tool to help break down silos, encourage collaboration and create a happier workplace.

1. An Open Source Approach To
Community Culture
The Road Is The Destination
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What is InnerSource?
Common open-source development practices
● universal access to development artefacts
● transparent fish-bowl development environment
● peer-review of contributions through organization-wide scrutiny of
contributions
● informal communication channels (e.g., mailing lists, Internet
Relay Chat (IRC) channels)
● self-selection of motivated contributors
● frequent releases and early feedback
● “around the clock” development

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Why InnerSource?

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Why InnerSource?

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Why InnerSource?

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Why InnerSource?

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Collaboration
● Make collaboration part of the process. Organisation-wide
collaboration and reducing duplicated effort
● Collaboration needs to get into the culture
● Helping other people understand
● Self-healing environment
● The health of the community depends on collaboration
● Base collaboration on standards

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Sharing / Transparency
● Require everything to be documented
● Communicating
● Educating

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Meritocracy
The open source community values and provides public
feedback, both positive and negative, on contributions and
contributors.

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Behavior
● Assholes are Ruining Your Project
● Respect
● Assume best intent

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Evolution
The evolution into an “InnerSource” community:
1) Reduce the risks associated with in-house software development and improve
IT security.
2) Foster greater accountability and a culture of meritocracy amongst the in-
house software developers.
3) Identify and target in-house developer talent faster and more effectively.
4) Create more of an internal market for IT skills, which is focused on problem
solving.
5) Provide metrics for remuneration and bonuses to become far more result
driven.
6) Promote more effective cross-organisational learning, and greater transfer of
knowledge and skills.
7) Support innovation in core practice.

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Challenges
● Mindset
● Long term versus short term
● Workplace ethos
● Social responsibility

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