organizational-mindset-change.md

Title

Organizational Mindset Change

Patlet

Upper management, middle management, and developers all need to shift their mindset to support InnerSource, but organizational change is slow and costly, and pressures from deadlines and competition make experimentation feel too risky. A phased approach that starts with a small visible experiment, demonstrates concrete value early, and uses that momentum to broaden adoption is the most effective path to lasting culture change.

Problem

How do you effect an organizational mindset change to support inner sourcing?

Context

Upper management, middle management and developers are not convinced to fully support inner sourcing. They are used to doing software development in the old way.

Forces

Changing an organizational mindset takes time and effort, which most organizations (feel they) cannot afford. Inner sourcing could bring about a lot of desirable benefits, but it takes time to ramp up to deliver them. Changing executive mindsets usually requires hype which then is hard deliver on. KPIs to prove the benefits are often required early but choosing the wrong KPIs can severely warp the program. Pressure from competitors and the market place makes management less willing to try significant change (deemed too risky).

Solutions

TBD

Resulting Context

All of the company heartily adopts inner sourcing! Cake for everyone!

Status

• Initial (Donut)