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Adopting InnerSource
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Adopting InnerSource

by Danese Cooper, Klaas-Jan Stol
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
187 pages
4h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. The InnerSource Approach to Innovation and Software Development

InnerSource is a software development strategy rapidly spreading throughout large corporations—and it is also more. At its essence, InnerSource enables software developers to contribute to the efforts of other teams, fostering transparency and openness to contributions from others. But beyond that, InnerSource represents a collaborative and empowering way of involving employees in making and implementing decisions throughout the corporation. It embodies a philosophy of human relations, an approach to rewards and motivations, and a loose, adaptable set of tools and practices.

This book presents case studies at a range of companies to show when and why InnerSource may be useful to your organization. The case studies candidly discuss the difficulties of getting InnerSource projects started, along with the progress so far and the benefits or negative fallout. We hope that readers will be inspired to advocate for InnerSource within their software development groups and organizations.

InnerSource is an adaptation of Open Source practices to code that remains proprietary and can be seen only within a single organization, or a small set of collaborating organizations. Thus, InnerSource is a historical development drawing on the Open Source movement along with other trends in software. This chapter introduces InnerSource and locates it in the history of software.

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ISBN: 9781492041863