InnerSource in Action

“ We’re moving towards more openness, which ultimately creates a communication culture and a generative culture, rather than one that’s bureaucratic and process-based. ”

“ InnerSource paves the way for ADEO to introduce new open source projects and give developers more freedom. ”

“ If we give people the right tools and the right platform, it’s a start. We can share more within our company and with each other, growing as an InnerSource organization. ”

“ InnerSource has allowed us to deliver dozens of cross-cutting features more efficiently, spanning multiple teams and services. ”

“ Our tools have been built been built from the ground up with an expectation of InnerSource … The way that we encourage that in a very disparate organization is mostly word of mouth and clear documentation. ”

“ InnerSource is not new to Bloomberg … our competitive advantage is really in being able to innovate, come up with new ideas and get them out to our specialized consumers on a regular basis at the speed that they require it to be competitive in the market. ”

“ InnerSource has proven invaluable for us. It has become the gold standard for internal collaboration on software at Bosch. ”

“ InnerSource has absolutely made our developers stronger. ”

“ Our InnerSource journey started small and then started to grow to an enterprise scale. ”

“ InnerSource helped us create a community inside the company... InnerSource is truly a cultural transformation. ”

“ With InnerSource, we want to enable all developers with the freedom to be creative, to drive innovation without barriers, and to be appreciated for their contributions across the company. ”

“ What we're seeing now is the technology has caught up with all these ideas of innovation and collaboration, and that's really critical for us. ”

“ What we're seeing now is the technology has caught up with all these ideas of innovation and collaboration, and that's really critical for us. ”

“ Everyone should be able to read the code that powers etsy.com and contribute to the broader success of the company. ”

“ Our environment allows developers to find solutions that have already been developed. They can collaborate on those, and then reuse them. ”

“ The reason why InnerSource works is because like open source you're working with people who are collaborating with different priorities kind of thing because they're working on different things ”

“ We need to build a community around the InnerSource projects of people who share the same ideals. ”

“ We see InnerSource as a way to improve efficiency through code reuse. But even beyond that, it's an amazing conduit for learning and exchanging ideas and facilitating innovation within IBM. ”

“ Suddenly developers are buttoning up the structure of their code—open source and InnerSource act as a forcing function to get the details right and ready for more eyes. ”

“ We have seen greater engineering satisfaction among teams that practice InnerSource... we have [also] seen better product quality and responses because of InnerSource. ”

“ We knew (with InnerSource) were going to save money, but that savings immediately turned into more capacity for teams to do the most valuable work for our business. ”

“ We found it very useful to work within the InnerSource Commons.. Where you can bounce ideas off of other InnerSource practitioners ”

“ We try to standardize our code style, our languages so that everybody can contribute to repositories. It’s really good for me making a change on a project, a service skeleton, or a common library to know that everybody’s going to use that to deploy their service. ”

“ The Process of InnerSource is actually the mindset of Collaboration. ”

“ Pull requests are welcome. Someone out there might find a better solution than I can. ”

“ This internal community removes friction as we build software while making all of our projects more open and social. ”

“ We work together as a team to provide InnerSource methodology to encourage new people to initiate new projects... 70% of SAP employees would like to contribute if suitable projects are available. ”

“ [Tencent] adopted InnerSource to promote engineer culture inside the company... 80% of projects get InnerSourced. ”

“ Our development teams have benefited from the collaborative features of GitHub. It allows them to take co-development to a whole new level by working as a community and maturing our InnerSourcing practices. ”

“ Anyone can learn something from another team and quickly see what’s in the code..Having a fairly open structure allows people to get involved quite easily and quickly. ”

“ We have an InnerSource policy, Everybody has access to create pull requests on all repositories. You can see all our code. We don’t lock down anything. ”

“ Our development teams have benefited from the collaborative features of GitHub. It allows them to take co-development to a whole new level by working as a community and maturing our InnerSourcing practices. ”

“ A project isn’t just about the code, there’s a team behind it, including writers, designers and project managers. [InnerSource] gives you the opportunity to collaborate across multiple time zones and business units. ”

“ Once you embrace it [InnerSource] and see new teams come on, you show examples of places where not only can people contribute, you unlock bottlenecks ”

“ Once you embrace it [InnerSource] and see new teams come on, you show examples of places where not only can people contribute, you unlock bottlenecks ”

“ We have thousands of developers working on these projects today and at any given time we’re doing dozens of different projects... 75% of our clients with large global enterprises are trying InnerSource in some way, shape or form. ”

“ Our engineering culture is open and centred around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production. ”