Inner Source--Adopting Open Source Development Practices in Organizations: A Tutorial

Klaas-Jan Stol, Brian Fitzgerald
2015 IEEE Software  
Inner source, the adoption and tailoring of Open Source development practices inside organizations, is a topic of increasing interest. While Inner Source offers a number of benefits, in our experience many practitioners are unclear as to what Inner Source is, and what steps to take towards adoption. In this article we present a tutorial in which we outline nine key factors, pertaining to product, process and organization, which we have found to be important in working with organizations who are
more » ... interested in Inner Source. This paper illustrates these nine factors with three inner source initiatives that we have studied.
doi:10.1109/ms.2014.77 fatcat:jlp5xowfxvd7hiosf32q37rs6q