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

Xebia

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery. If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. The same applies to coaching.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

I’ll then tie them to principles I believe are critical to fostering resilient organizations, and how these likely bubble up to be found in Honeycomb’s product. I have generally seen strong alignment on such values in some teams or departments, but rarely within entire organizations. Fostering Human Processes.

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Process

The Programmer's Paradox

Process is, after all, just a manifestation of organization. Since the intent of having a process is to apply organization to an effort, a badly thought out process defeats this goal. The key has been promoting a good engineering culture that has essentially self-organized. A little process goes a long way.

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Collective Protection

The Programmer's Paradox

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. Back in the dotcom boom, when software development became popular it attracted a great deal of outsiders.