How to Use Innersource to Drive Software Engineering Innovation

Organizations are adopting innersource — the application of open-source principles to internal software development practices — to drive innovation, collaboration and productivity. Software engineering leaders should implement practices to initiate, grow and sustain innersource efforts.

9 Nov 2023

Thomas Murphy| Manjunath Bhat| Arun Batchu| Nitish Tyagi

Video: Innersource (Top Strategic Technology Trends in Software Engineering)

Innersource adapts open-source principles of collaboration, transparency and code sharing to a company’s internal development processes. The result? Increased code quality and shorter development timelines. Watch this video to learn more about what innersource can do for your organization.

13 Sep 2023

Brent Stewart| Danny Brian

Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software, 2024

Open-source software adoption continues to grow despite recent concerns about reliability, security, licensing and intellectual property rights. Software engineering leaders can use this Hype Cycle to learn about innovations, tools and practices that preserve OSS as a backbone of software.

8 Aug 2024

Oleksandr Matvitskyy| Anne Thomas| Mark Driver| Nitish Tyagi

Case Study: Unlock the Value of Open Source (Fannie Mae)

Open source technologies and development practices drive innovation and developer engagement. To unlock the full value of open source, software engineering leaders at Fannie Mae embrace the principles of open-source development and promote contribution to open-source and innersource initiatives.

21 Jun 2023

Philip Walsh| Akriti Kapoor

Video Spotlight: Unlocking the Value of Open Source at Fannie Mae

To maximize its value, software engineering leaders must drive consumption of and contributions to open source across the developer community. In this video, John Mark Walker shares insights into how Fannie Mae is driving buy-in and promoting developer participation in open-source initiatives.

24 Mar 2023

Software Engineering Research Team