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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020

Github

As Smale explains, “Our engineering culture is open and centered around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production.”. It’s how people build proprietary software across industries, teams, and time zones. Get new ideas to customers faster. Opening up a project invites more ideas.

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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. Our industry track record is quite horrible right now. Good practice from foolishness.

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The Engineering of Software

The Programmer's Paradox

I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. The project may drift but either the long-term perspective still holds, or it is rethought again to insure that it is still valid. Early on I moved away from the cowboys. They were driving me nuts. There is still room out there for the hackers and the cowboys.