Opt-in InnerSource at Scale
summary
Nike codifies an collaboration maturity model with three axes — artifact (talks → docs → code), criticality (side projects → support projects → mainline), and organizational scope (sibling teams → cross business unit → cross company — each phase taking ~six months). Adoption tactics are concrete: open community meetups, docs in git with pull requests, an evangelist council, and the two-two-one rule (two vertical, two peer reinforcements, one visible successful project). A shared deployment pipeline grows from a few sites to dozens then hundreds and internal projects report doubled adoption and steady monthly new customers.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to InnerSource
- 2:53Collaboration maturity model
- 6:43Preparatory behaviors for InnerSource
- 9:54Criticality and support projects
- 13:20Cross-team collaboration scale
- 16:07Behavior change in groups
- 20:39Two-two-one rule for adoption
- 22:44InnerSource Commons resources
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