On infrastructure for facilitation of inner source in small development teams
Author
Editor
- Pasi Kuvaja
Summary, in English
The phenomenon of adopting open source software development
practices in a corporate environment is known by many names,
one being inner source. The objective of this study is to investigate how
an organization consisting of small development teams can benet from
adopting inner source and assess the level of applicability. The research
has been conducted as a case study at a software development company.
Data collection was carried out through interviews and a series of focus
group meetings, and then analyzed by mapping it to an available framework.
The analysis shows that the organization possesses potential, and
also identied a number of challenges and benets of special importance
to the case company. To address these challenges, the case study synthesized
the organizational and infrastructural needs of the organization
in a requirements specication describing a technical infrastructure, also
known as a software forge, with an adapted organizational context and
work process.
practices in a corporate environment is known by many names,
one being inner source. The objective of this study is to investigate how
an organization consisting of small development teams can benet from
adopting inner source and assess the level of applicability. The research
has been conducted as a case study at a software development company.
Data collection was carried out through interviews and a series of focus
group meetings, and then analyzed by mapping it to an available framework.
The analysis shows that the organization possesses potential, and
also identied a number of challenges and benets of special importance
to the case company. To address these challenges, the case study synthesized
the organizational and infrastructural needs of the organization
in a requirements specication describing a technical infrastructure, also
known as a software forge, with an adapted organizational context and
work process.
Department/s
Publishing year
2014
Language
English
Pages
149-163
Publication/Series
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement : 15th International Conference, PROFES 2014, Helsinki, Finland, December 10-12, 2014. Proceedings
Volume
8892
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Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Computer Science
Keywords
- Open source software
- Inner source
- Software development practices
- Software ecosystem
- Life cycle
- Programming teams
- Software process models
- Software reuse
- Software forge
Conference name
The 15th International Conference of Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (Profes)
Conference date
2014-12-10 - 2014-12-12
Conference place
Helsinki, Finland
Status
Published
Project
- Synthesis of a Software Engineering Framework for Open Innovation through Empirical Research
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0302-9743
- ISSN: 1611-3349
- ISBN: 978-3-319-13835-0
- ISBN: 978-3-319-13834-3