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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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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture

CIO

Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

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Four short links: 18 March 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Inklewriter — open source interactive text adventure game creator. Software Engineering at Google — a new O’Reilly book. Covers Google’s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools, and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.

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Why organizations should commit to innersource in 2020

Github

Instead, it describes how the processes and principles developers have used for decades to build large-scale open source software (think Git, Linux, or Python) can apply to closed source projects at companies of all sizes. Opening up a project invites more ideas. There’s a logical tension between “open” and “secure”.

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Commerce Tomorrow Podcast

Joel Crabb

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at.

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Commerce Tomorrow Podcast

Joel Crabb

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at.

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Commerce Tomorrow Podcast

Joel Crabb

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Kelly Goetsch and Dirk Hoerig to record an interview on Target’s engineering culture as part of their Commerce Tomorrow podcast. Kelly was in town for the Open Source North conference which we were both speaking at.