Inner source software development: Current thinking and an agenda for future research

Edison, Henry; Carroll, Noël; Morgan, Lorraine; Conboy, Kieran

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2020.110520

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“…As a literature review from Edison et al [18] showed, inner source and its research is deeply integrated within a wide range of business aspects including knowledge & business management, business model design, and collaboration measurement. Being able to determine costs and software related intellectual property flow therefore is not only a matter of traditional, already well defined costing, accounting and management methods (e.g.…”

Section: Inner Source Software Developmentmentioning

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Calculating the Costs of Inner Source Collaboration by Computing the Time Worked

Büchner¹,

Riehle²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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A key part of taxation, controlling, and management of international collaborative programming workflows is determining the costs of a supplied software artifact. The OECD suggests the use of the Cost Plus method for calculating these costs. However, in the past, this method has been implemented using only coarse-grain data from the costs of whole organizational units. Due to the move to inner source software development, we need a much more fine-grain solution for computing the detailed time spent on programming specific components. This is necessary, because a more accurate work time distribution is required to fulfill the fiscal and administrative challenges posed by collaborating across organizational boundaries. In this article, we present a novel method to determine the time spent on an individual code contribution (commit) to a software component for use within cost calculation, especially for taxation purposes. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by application to a real-world data set gathered at a large multi-national corporation. We evaluate our work through feedback received from this corporation and from the German Ministry of Finance.

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Section: Inner Source Software Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Calculating the Costs of Inner Source Collaboration by Computing the Time Worked

Büchner¹,

Riehle²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…23 Inner Source changes the philosophy of working and involves employees to make and implement decisions throughout the organization. 24 Hence, there is a need to look beyond tools and consider people, their fears, habits, work patterns, and motivations.…”

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Share and Share Alike: How Inner Source Can Help Create New Digital Platforms

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Baiyere

et al. 2021

California Management Review

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Many organizations are eager to develop a digital platform. Yet, it is not clear how to realize this ambition, especially for large companies with complex existing structures. This study demonstrates how the growing trend of “Inner Source” (adopting internal open-source/crowdsourcing practices within large organizations) can help companies become more platform-based. This article studies three large organizations—Zalando, Philips Healthcare, and PayPal—and identifies a four-stage model that explains how Inner Source helped them develop their internal and external platforms. It details six recommendations for large organizations wishing to follow a strategy of Inner Source-driven platformization.

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“…This means they open their repositories for internal re-use and incentivize developers of other teams and organizations to contribute to their software (Gruetter et al, 2018). In inner source, companies do not develop publicly available repositories as common in open source, but adopt its peer-review characteristics and early feedback cycles (Edison et al, 2020).…”

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“…It also increases employee satisfaction (Capraro, 2020;Riehle et al, 2016) and makes overall development, especially of software platforms (Riehle et al, 2016), more efficient. As a result, overall development time can be shortened, and costs reduced Edison et al, 2020). Even though inner source is getting more popular recently (Edison et al, 2020), it is not widespread yet.…”

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Beyond the Social Media Contents: The Role of Social Interactions in Stance Detection

Zhou,

Wang,

Tao

2024

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Inner source is the use of open-source practices within companies.It enables more efficient software development, shortens time-to-market, and lowers costs through increased company-internal collaboration. While existing studies examine social and organizational impact factors on inner source adoption, only a few have looked at measuring and economically assessing inner source. This article presents an overview of current research regarding inner source, its measurement, economic assessment, and impact on businesses and their processes. Based on a systematic literature review we build a research model for economic inner source assessment. This research model shows thematic dependencies between the economic impact of inner source and its measurement. Additionally, it proposes research questions and hypotheses on measuring, economically assessing, and subsequently adopting inner source.

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Inner source software development: Current thinking and an agenda for future research

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Calculating the Costs of Inner Source Collaboration by Computing the Time Worked

Calculating the Costs of Inner Source Collaboration by Computing the Time Worked

Share and Share Alike: How Inner Source Can Help Create New Digital Platforms

Beyond the Social Media Contents: The Role of Social Interactions in Stance Detection

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