InnerSource Program Begin Program Setup Management hesitates to invest in InnerSource Start as an Experiment Slow community growth hinders InnerSource Dedicated Community Leader InnerSource principles are not intuitive for everybody Document your Guiding Principles Project Setup Hard to assess a project quickly Standard Base Documentation Ad-hoc communication hinders project growth Communication Tooling Intransparent roadmap and direction of the project Issue Tracker Use Cases Adopt Valuation Challenges How to measure a project's business value Cross-Team Project Valuation Can we rely on the project for an extended period? Standard Release Process Standard Base Documentation Cultural Challenges Unrecognized effort Praise Participants Trusted Committer Technical Challenges Not meeting everyone's needs Common Requirements Fear of shared support responsibility Service vs. Library Project is difficult to contribute to and use Core Team Organizational Challenges Discouragement of contributing resource Contracted Contributor Rejection of accepting contribution 30 Day Warranty Radical change of management Review Committee Fear of shared support responsibility Service vs. Library Not enough maintainers to scale Trusted Committer Difficult cross-team coordination Transparent Cross-Team Decision Making using RFCs Project without an owner/maintainer Core Team Group Support Cross Legal Entities Challenges Concern on legal liabilities or cross-company accounting InnerSource License Grow Discovery Challenges Can't find matching projects Gig Marketplace InnerSource Portal Difficult to find active projects Repository Activity Score Scale Self Education/Improvement Challenges Not aware of InnerSource best practices Maturity Model Lack of open source knowledge Document your Guiding Principles Technical Challenges Increasing maintenance overhead Extensions for Sustainable Growth