What if you ran your internal, closed-source, proprietary, mega-corporate projects like open source projects? Similar styles? Similar tools?
In This Episode:
First step in a software project? Meetings! But, but … what if we run internal projects like they were open source projects? Submitting patches to company projects, no matter where they are. IT departments: The people who say no. Internal utility projects? Or open source product products? Skunkworxing Pretending internally focussed apps are open source apps. The expensive barrier of entry for official projects. You can’t backlog an exploration. Feudalism and the company ownership of your skills. Toyota and the kanban thing. The Blue Ocean Notion Engineers, the trolls in the back room. The economy of getting things done. The meritocracy of things that work. We won’t discuss the merits of hard copy RSS. Open source repos as a way to avoid executive escalation. Branching another org’s project if they won&
