Is your organization ready for InnerSource

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• What is your culture?
  • How motivated?
  • What does your management support look like?
  • Transparency?
• What is your coding/communication environment?
  • Is your Codebase in github or publicly available/viewable to all employees?
  • Do you have employees that have already been involved in Open Source?
    • Is their input listened to?
  • Code review?
  • Unit testing | CI/CD
  • Asynchronous vs. synchronous communication (eg: Email vs. Slack)
• What is your level of commitment?
  • Is there buy-in for upfront investment to enable innersourcing?
  • Is this a one-shot (for a specific project) or universal?
  • Code-dump vs. Code-collaboration
• Measurement
  • Do you have Baseline Metrics?
  • What are your company’s goals?
  • How do you measure success?
  • what is success?
  • Code Reviews?
  • Have you figured out the KPI’s that will matter for your culture?
    • Remember Gamification and testing teaches the test
  • Ongoing tracking of
    • Resources
    • Time
    • Cost
  • Have you identified an initial team to roll out with?
    • Agile to fail fast at first? Or a small project?
    • Take at least a quarter or half a year to see
    • Or address levels of InnerSource
    • See Doc Is Your Team Ready for InnerSource
  • Do you have a way to aggregate your documentation?
    • Ways to capture Mentoring Conversations
  • How to do intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for people and teams?
    • Reputational Feedback game like Badges
    • Showing measurement
  • What does your feedback process look like?
  • What do your resource constraints look like?
    • Educational resources available to learn (sharpen the saw)
• HR
  • Trusted Committers (TCs) need promotion path that isn’t Management (fellows)
  • Trusted Committer (TC) code review and TC become Release Managers
  • Roles and responsibilities updated for TCs and POs