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## Context
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The company is considering to leverage InnerSource to increase the efficiency
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The company is considering InnerSource to increase the efficiency
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of collaboration on software projects. However, most managers are not familiar
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with the Open Source working model and are instead accustomed to hierarchical,
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top-down control style management. The idea of InnerSource is very popular with
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and if many projects are likely to rely on it, a decision to shut it down
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will be very unpopular and therefore hard to make. The perceived resulting
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loss of control might deter some managers to even start with InnerSource.
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- Implementing InnerSource style working models are often a radically departure
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- Implementing InnerSource style working models are often a radical departure
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from previously practiced working models. It is therefore likely, that
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existing, mandatory processes are no longer applicable and that appropriate
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governing processes are missing. The result might be that one has to operate
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## Solution
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Declare the InnerSource initiative as a time limited experiment. Define and
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communicate the criteria for projects to join the InnerSource experiment. The
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criteria should be chosen such that they maximize the chances of building a
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healthy InnerSource community around the selected InnerSource projects. They
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should also help to ensure that the setting of the projects is such that they
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can later be used to gain externally valid insights into the effects of
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applying InnerSource. Examples for such criteria are
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communicate the criteria for projects to join the InnerSource experiment. Choose
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criteria that will maximize the chances of building a healthy A set of criteria is
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a good one if the insights generated from it within the context of the experiment
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can intuitively be applied to contexts involving other potential InnerSource projects.
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Examples for such criteria are:
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- Sufficient geographical distribution of developers
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- Sufficient departmental mix of developers,
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Managers are able to kick start InnerSource for the following reasons:
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- The experimental setup eases the need of managers to scrutinize the
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- The experimental setup eases the need for managers to scrutinize the
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InnerSource program numbers in the same way that they would for typical
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projects.
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- The possibility of failure of the experiment is understood and accepted. The
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- In case of success, the data gathered during the experiment will allow
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managers to make a longer lasting commitment to InnerSource.
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Participants in the InnerSource experiment are now conscious of the fact that
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they have to prove to management that InnerSource yields the promised benefits.
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Participants in the InnerSource experiment are now conscious that they have to
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prove to management that InnerSource yields the promised benefits.
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It will therefore help to focus work on those activities which provide the most
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demonstrable value thus increasing the chances of success.
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