Keynote - From Code to Culture: Scaling Collaboration with InnerSource
summary
SAP describes a companywide InnerSource collaboration setup that moves standards from docs to living projects: the CPA collaboration model uses enterprise GitHub, Jira votes requiring two‑thirds approval, and working groups with core contributors and nominated LOB reviewers; it reaches 5,000+ participants, 35 working groups, 179 work streams, 43 tech guidelines, 17 frontrunners running and 33 completed. A concrete success is the open resource discovery spec (v10), published on GitHub, handed to the Neonos Foundation and winning an API World award.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:03Conway's law and SAP's challenge
- 3:32Redundant implementations problem
- 7:45Cross Product Architecture model
- 10:12Working groups and roles
- 12:21Technology guidelines and ADRs
- 14:51Case study: Open resource discovery
- 18:45External adoption and open sourcing
- 20:33Success and impact at SAP
- 23:02Future and expansion of model
- 24:44Q&A
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