State of InnerSource 2025
summary
115 survey responses from a global, mostly experienced sample show top principles as collaboration, openness and transparency and top practices as contribution guidelines, open governance and high‑quality docs. Adoption clusters with 43% bottom-up initiation and roughly 20% emerging / 40% growing or well established, while program support exists in over 60% (35% formal, 29% virtual ISPOs). Measured gains cite code reuse, developer speed and culture but measurement is mostly manual; lack of time/resources top blocker and ~30% report GenAI interplay across prompts, models and automation.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:08Survey methodology and demographics
- 2:53InnerSource principles and practices
- 4:18Adoption levels and program offices
- 6:25Benefits and motivations for InnerSource
- 9:14Measuring InnerSource progress
- 11:00Common blockers to InnerSource
- 13:11InnerSource project types
- 15:02GenAI and InnerSource interplay
- 17:13Closing remarks and acknowledgments
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