Category: 2.5 Inner Source
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Video for breaking down organizational silos with inner source (in German)
Eberhard Wolff just published the recording of my lunch chat on Software Architektur TV with him. Our topic was inner source and how to tear down firm-internal silos for better code reuse, more knowledge sharing, and generally more satisfied employees. Check it out below (local copy) or visit Eberhard’s site for it! Or, just take…
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Breaking down organizational silos with inner source (in German)
This coming Friday, December 11th, 2020, at noon CET, I’ll be a guest in Eberhard Wolff’s Software Architektur lunch chat. Our topic is how to break down organizational silos using open source methods, which is, you guessed it, using inner source. Join me through Software Architektur TV and send us your questions in advance (or…
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How non-software vendors fail and how inner source can help
Non-software vendors should avoid creating a separate software organization but rather should have existing product units collaborate inner source style.
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Is inner source collaboration like shipping boxes between companies? (Hint: No!!)
Most corporate compliance departments believe developer collaboration in inner source projects is like shipping boxes with stuff (products) between the involved parties, for example, companies in a holding. Therefore, they don’t have to change anything about tax accounting and transfer pricing. They couldn’t be more wrong. At the highest superficial level, it appears they may…
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Inner source and work-from-home
Inner source is the use of open source best practices inside companies to develop shared components for use in the company’s products. Inner source software doesn’t have to become open source (but might). Like open source software development, inner source software development is inherently asynchronous, distributed, and multi-timezone. Inner source is a match made in…
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Open Source and Inner Source at IAV (in English)
The house magazine of IAV Automotive Engineering GmbH, a major supplier to the German automotive industry, which had interviewed Markus Blonn and me about open source and inner source at IAV, translated the magazine article into English, woohoo!