Business Success with Open Source

Inbound Stakeholders

As you read through these chapters on inbound FOSS and consider applying what you learn, keep in mind that your actions won’t occur in a vacuum. Inbound FOSS already exists in your corporate ecosystem, meaning there are people who rely upon it to get their jobs done. Making changes without consideration for how it will impact people’s workflow is at best going to irritate them and at worst going to lead to disaster. As with all matters touching upon free and open source software, you’ll get the best results if you enter into it with a mindset of collaboration from the very start. When you think about creating and implementing new policies, consult those whom it’ll affect. Gaining buy-in and support from these stakeholders ...