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State of InnerSource Survey 2016

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The goal of this First Annual State of InnerSource Commons survey was to establish a first baseline of how organizations adopt InnerSource. The survey addresses many aspects, including development methods, practices, quality assurance, tools, and motivation and organizational support.

Results

For the full results see the State of InnerSource 2016 Report.

Authors

This survey was conducted by Dr. Klaas-Jan Stol of Lero—the Irish Software Research Centre, and Dr. Tim Yao of Nokia. Dr. Bora Caglayan of Lero contributed to the survey design.