Guy Martin, Managing Principal Architect Red Hat Consulting

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1 Inner-Sourcing Community Development Practices in Corporate IT Guy Martin, Managing Principal Architect Red Hat Consulting Andrew Aitken, Vice President & General Manager Olliance Consulting, a Division of Black Duck 10/4/2012 1

2 Speakers Guy Martin Managing Principal Architect Red Andrew Aitken Vice President and General Manager 10/4/2012 2

3 Agenda What is Inner-Source? Benefits Inner-Source vs. Agile Case Study Forge.mil Challenges Getting Started Best Practices 10/4/2012 3

4 What is Inner-Source? The application of best practices, processes, culture and methodologies taken from the open source world and applied to internal software development and innovation efforts. 10/4/2012 4

5 3 Pillars of Inner-Source Ethos Processes Tools & Technology Inner-Source 10/4/2012 5

6 Inner-Source Characteristics Transparency Collaboration Self-organization Hybrids Evangelists, catalysts Egalitarianism Meritocracy 10/4/2012 6

7 Inner-Source Benefits A properly run inner-source project allows you to achieve reuse within your organization, reducing your development and maintenance costs Scott W. Ambler Chief Methodologist for Agile & Lean, IBM Rational Dr. Dobbs Journal: Reuse Through Internal Open Source, December 2000

8 Inner-Source Benefits Better code - Greater internal code scrutiny Increased innovation - Broad expertise Extensive support and buy-in from organization Greater focus on value-added development More code re-use Improved productivity, morale and retention - motivated contributors Faster development 10/4/2012 8

9 Inner-Source & Agile Allies - not competitors Some overlap, but in general: Agile specifies process Inner-source informs culture 10/4/2012 9

10 Case Study Forge.mil Community Collaborative content and knowledge management site for Forge.mil users to connect and share information Free, collaborative development environment for open-source and DoD community source software On-demand, fee-for-service, development environment for individual programs and projects 10

11 The Forge.mil Community: Forge.mil by the Numbers - 15,000 DoD developers, IT experts, and users sharing lessons learned, best practices, and solutions as of 3 Apr Over 700 development efforts - Over 100 sub-communities - 1,700 software releases available - Contributions include over 144,000 software commits 86,000 downloads 11,000 discussion posts 66,000 documents 7,200 wiki pages 1,600 software repositories and Growing... 11

12 Forge.mil Success Story DIB Distributed Common Ground Systems (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB) Before After! 87% Savings! 12

13 Challenges "The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behavior of politicians. T.S Elliot 10/4/

14 Challenges Technology is the Easy Part - be aware of: Lack of communication and shared purpose Culture shock and dissonance Lack of process consistency Technical mindset shift from delivering binaries to delivering source code Developer mindset shift from delivering final product to incremental quality code 10/4/

15 Best Practices Realistic vision, articulated shared purpose and clearly defined problems or opportunities being addressed (Initiators, catalysts, evangelists) need to have collaborative experience/mindset Acculturation model for new participants Programmatically facilitated continuous interaction and behavioral consistency Start with an intra-organizational group of people with defined shared goals 10/4/

16 Getting Started Define clear community goals, vision, behaviors and expectations Identify seed-collaborators and catalysts Choose 1-2 small/common technologies/projects to start Deploy Inner Source Platform Documentation Bug/task tracking to identify collaboration areas Common source control repositories Communications tools (IM, Wiki, video, etc.) Security model Define governance model Communications and incentive program Who coordinates/approves changes/releases Consider human resources ramifications Employee performance reviews Managerial expectations/comfort levels 10/4/

17 Questions Guy Martin Managing Principal Architect Red Andrew Aitken Vice President and General Manager (Image: Creative Commons 2.0 by Stefan Baudy) 10/4/

18 Inner-Sourcing Consulting 10/4/