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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

They utilize the project or product created through the collective efforts of the original product team, external contributors, and trusted committers. By leveraging these contributions, consumers meet their needs, provide usability feedback, and enjoy ongoing enhancements.

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Is the Paved Road right for you?

Xebia

In her 2017 OSCON presentation , Netflix’s Dianne Marsh describes the Paved Road as ‘ A concept, formalizing a set of expectations and commitments between the centralized teams and our engineering customers ’. This means that a central team builds and (mostly) maintains the Paved Road for the benefit of its developer clients.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

Alignment is your most important deliverable Most execs — at least the good ones — spend a lot of time on something that can be completely invisible to their teams: building alignment at the executive level. Are our teams thriving? But what did that look like, in practice? Is there friction?