Inner Source

Inner source is an approach to collaboration across intra-organizational boundaries for the creation of shared reusable assets. post

We find the separation of product units as profit centers from a platform organization as a cost center, leads to delayed deliveries, increased defect rates, and redundant software components.

Studied organizations assume that inner source can help solve these problems. We analyze the expectations of inner source and the problems in adoption. Finally, we how these organizations should adapt their existing engineering efforts.